I created a MILTARISTIC JAPAN in VICTORIA 3
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- Japan in Victoria 3 starts as an isolated economy. Victoria 3 Japan or Vic3 Japan has the ability to dominate asia, conquer china and bully the great powers. Victoria 3 russia? Pathetic. Victoria 3 Qing? Weak. Soem may treat this as a victoria 3 guide or a victoria 3 japan guide because honestly, this might've been the most fun I've had in victoria 3. Despite the radicals and isolationism.
I created a MILTARISTIC JAPAN in VICTORIA 3
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I can't believe Laith basically pledged his allegiance to Emperor Hirohito and supported the imperial ambitions of the land of the rising sun. I gotta say that's a really Bold move
So it has increased Defense but lower Attack? :D
I mean he is part of the SS, only makes sense to back his allies
@@boot-4704 last place i expected to find this comment 💀
Ware wa kangun waga teki wa
Tenchi irezaru chouteki zo
Teki no taishou taru mono wa
Kokon musou no eiyuu de
Kore ni shitagou tsuwamono wa
Tomo ni hyoukan kesshi no shi
Kijin ni hajinu yuuaru mo
Ten no yurusanu hangyaku wo
Okoseshi mono wa mukashi yori
Sakaeshi tameshi arazaru zo
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
Mikuni no fuuto mono no fu wa
Sonomi wo mamoru tamashii no
Ishiin kono kata sutaretaru
Nippontou no ima sara ni
Mata yo ni izuru mi no homare
Teki mo mikata mo moro tomo ni
Yaiba no shita ni shisu beki ni
Yamato-damashii aru mono no
Shinubeki toki wa ima naruzo
Hito ni okurete haji kakuna
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
Mae wo nozomeba tsuruginari
Migi mo hidari mo mina tsurugi
Tsurugi no yama ni noboranwa
Mirai no koto to kikitsuru ni
Kono yo ni oite manoatari
Tsurugi no yama ni noboru nomo
Wagami no naseru zaigou wo
Horobosu tame ni arazushite
Zoku wo seibatsu suru ga tame
Tsurugi no yama mo nann' no sono
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
Tsurugi no hikari kirameku wa
Kumoma ni miyuru imazuma ka
Yomo ni uchidasu housei wa
Ten ni todoroku ikazuchi ka
Teki no yaiba ni fusumono ya
Tama ni kudakete tama no o no
Taete hakanaku usuru mi no
Kabane wa Tsumite yama wo nashi
Sono chi wa nagarete kawa wo nasu
Shichi ni hairu nomo kimi ga tame
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
Dangan'uhi no aida nimo
Futatsu naki mi wo oshimazu ni
Susumu wa ga mi wa noarashi ni
Fukarete kiyuru shiratsuyu no
Hakanaki saigo wo togurutomo
Chugi no tame ni ususu mi no
Shishite kai aru mono naraba
Shisurumo sarani uraminashi
Wareto owowan hitotachi wa
Ippo mo ato e hikunakare
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
Ware ima koko ni
Shinan mi wa
Kimi no tame nari Kuni no tame
Sutsu beki mono wa inochi nari
Tatoi (tatohi)
Kabane wa kuchinu tomo
Chugi no tame ni usuru mi no
Na wa kanbashiku nochi no yo ni
Nagaku tsutaete
Nokoru nan
Bushi to umareta
Kai mo naku
Gi mo naki inu to
Iwaruruna
Hikyou mono to na
Soshirare so
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
@@usoguiontop Based song :)
Laith blissfully unaware of Russia taking over part of the home islands
It happens almost every time even if you as Japan rush colonialism so he maybe gotten used to it
*time Traveller moves chair*
Russia wins Russo-Japanese war
@@arkadiuszrenc1498 some people have gotten to hokkaido before Russia, although sakhalin is always taken so no point in that
@@yeetjones927 Actually it doesn't always happen. In one of my playthroughs they didn't even attempt to colonise sakhalin
@@Ag3ntL3mon it happens all the time to me
I can't believe he never took Hokkaido.
Yeah and also the southern New Zealand island and Alaska, he could’ve taken over Hawaii and other minor nations
@@ethanbell4724 he did notice the south island and russia begins with colonies in alaska that expand
lathe i liked your video lathe
i am going to subscribe lathe
Lathe is a funny person. I like lathe.
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it triggers me so much how russia always colonizers hokkaido before japan can even get there in this game, I need a pt.2 just for the clean borders
Its possible to beat them, but you have to go straight for colonization then get lucky with the law being passed quickly
@@pyrothelostone it may be possible to beat them but honestly it still annoys me that it's how EVERY game goes. and it's no better when either france or great britain comes earlier either.
Japan should get those islands some other way in their journal. maybe something so it doesn't happen every game but so it's at least likely to go to them.
On a recent Japan game I had half colonised them and then the Russians came in trying to colonise the rest. Then a few months later Russia declared war on me over them... I won the war but still very potato.
They made it better rn in my japan game it’s 1860 and Russia hasn’t even tried
I wonder if there's any plans to add a stockpiling system for arms in Vic3, would make sense for isolation economies who only use them in large numbers when at war but need the industry to keep ticking along
tbh they should add that for everything, basically you should be able to buy goods and the cost would come out of the national budget.
If you look at the market tab it lets you know if you have a surplus or not. It gives you a number. But personally I’m not convinced there is a stockpile mechanic.
My best bet as to why there isn't would be performance issues. But HOI4 has a stockpile, so surely it's at least possible.
@@cwovictor3281 hell even vic 2 has a stockpile
@@19NAT43 one of many reasons it is still the superior title. They really shouldn't have fixed things that weren't broken. Wouldn't it be nice to have units you can move around with certainty and geo-politics that make sense?
Not taking all of Hokkaido is driving me nuts.
You know, it’s funny. This video really shows off how smart Laith really is. I’m so used to him being a tad silly with a pinch of history and sports, but this was exciting to see
So the reason the Naval Bases would get employed extremely slowly is because Japan starts off with Closed Borders which stops migration completely, which stops external migration (foreigners coming in) as well as internal migration (pops moving from one province to another) Its one of the weirdest mechanics in the game i've come across so far.
External and internal migration should absolutely be separate policies. I hope they add that in a future patch.
If that is the case then why does nothing else get employed slowly?
@@ianmiller8399 cause he's way off on it. The reason the employment is filling slow in the naval bases is straight up due to training rate. Needs techs to improve it, but it will always be way slower than other buildings.
Naval bases and barracks always hire slowly. If I had to guess it's based on "training time."
It also prevents you from plopping down a bunch of them at the start of a war and getting their full effectiveness.
Naval Traditions, Power of the Purse, Jeune Ecole, Sea Lane Strategies, and Battlefleet Tactics will all increase training rate in naval bases. It will always be lower than other buildings since it has it's own training rate. So if you have few coastal areas it's best to start early as it still takes 20 weeks to hit 1000 at 50 a week, and it won't start the next ship until the previous one hit it's 1000
It's quite interesting that the American civil war is a thing that happens in this game but I haven't seen a single instance of the Boshin war, which is literally the war that changed the course of Japanese history from isolationism to being a world power that even Britain said "Alright you're a world power"
Acw is the only scripted war in the game
That's pretty disappointing, other powers had major civil wars, Japan's Boshin war set the stage for Japan in the 1900's, it really shouldn't be ignored.
The game has almost no flavor
"I'm scared of the Russian Navy." Said by no one in reality.
For anyone reading the comments, go watch Drachinifels video on the russian 2nd pacific squadron. Its even more of a clusterfuck than you imagine.
Imagine not being scared of 33 Nuclear Submarine.
@@Cohac yep the cursed yet hilarious journey.
nonsense they were the bane of English fishermen, the Japanese north sea torpedo boat fleet and Russian admirals alike.
-Admiral Togo in an alternate universe
Laith mid lecture, turns page, sees Victoria 3 Japan notes.
💀
Love the expansionist wartime strategies!
same
The song ravages my brain, i sometimes have nightmares where the song plays constantly. When I have nothing else to think about, I think of the song.
I think the enlistment edict would help with people joining the navy by increasing the training rate.
The reason that Korea doesn't become your tributary is that, you can only have tributaries as a unrecognized country, so when you became recognized just be for you could no longer have the subject. Usually it would just change the type of subject Korea is but apparently having it be a war goal all ready makes it so it doesn't change
You can change that stuff in the buildings menu too, if you open up the drop down on each building type (left click on "lumberjack" in the building menu) you see all the factories in your nation of that type and you can change production etc from there.
I really enjoy the longer videos. I like watching the campaign flesh out in a single video more.
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Also a Militaristic, Isolationist, Buddhist Theocracy sounds amazing.
I think the closest equivalent to insufficient naval support in EU4 is not having enough transports to move your troops over with, so you trickle in too little at a time to win the battles.
Hey Laith! Flotillas are trained really slowly. You can upgrade that training rate by researching some military technologies. It is the same section as the one that allows you to have jeune ecole. I don't remember the other ones, my Frenchiness is way to high for that.
great video! one of the few vicy 3 ytbers with charisma as far as i’m aware. should’ve tried to form the empire of the rising sun formable if possible though!
I don't know if you know this or discover this in the video (I haven't finished it yet) but you can see every single building from the building. as in you can see every logging industry in your country and what production method they use. you just have to click on the logging camp industry thing in the building tab
He seems to be really fixed in his ways.
Like when he's tallying up what he needs in the economy he REFUSES to open the market tab and then filter between basic/industrial/luxury/military goods and then clicking on sort by market price in descending order.
With that view you can rapidly see "oh iron +40% tools +35% coal" build more.
By just keeping everything in range of -25%-+25% price you've balanced the economy and it saves A LOT of brain power for other things.
one thing you need to remember about the tooltips is they don’t take into account how jobs switch around. when turning a tooling workshop from wood to iron tools, itll shoot up the price of iron, making them hella expensive, which the tooltip shows. but then because iron is so expensive, more people are gonna want to work in the mines
Love the longer more in depth video style
I love this style of you trying to min max and whipping out the pen.
Good to know I'm not the only one using pen and paper for resource to industry ratios. Wish someone would make an excel allowing you to just calculate if you build x you will need to build y to get a correct amount, barring imports.
27:30 most likely, there aren't any servicemen or officers to take the roles. Universities would help people get their qualifications to apply there.
Always good seeing an hour long Laith vid :)
Get you a nice lab notebook (ruled/graph paper every other page) for gaming notes. By the time it's half full you'll treasure the nostalgia of flipping through it.
Another great video from the wonderful Latte
"Open the country, stop having it be closed"
Commadore Matthew Perry, probably
An hour long video?!?!? Is this what Christmas is?
Director's extended cut. Looking forward to 24 hour videos soon.
20:30 Since you're so behind in tech at the start the tech trickle from the Great Powers will be quite significant if you build enough universities to go way over your innovation cap as excess innovation goes into speeding up the tech spread into your country. Expensive, yes, but that could also be worth it as you tech rush Production and Society techs while the Military techs filter through.
There is also one thing about army that you should know. Number of participant solders in fight can be increased.
Usually it will increase due to "conscription" or employment process in your barracks, but you can force it by deleting some barracks until employment there is full.
for example, if you have 3000 man in barracks that can hold 10 (lvl10 basically) each division from that barrack will have around 300 man.
If you delete 7 out of 10 barracks - it will consolidate troops to full.
This can help during battle, to manually increase numbers of your solders, and in general will increase fighting potential of your man, if you can't recruit as fast as you loose your troops.
But be careful, its not a good strategy for long wars.
Yes, you will need to re-build what you demolish, but barracks are not expensive to construct.
you have to use the "liberate country" option to liberate things like Manchuria. as the UK I liberated 3 countries in Great Qing when I had to make a treaty port. it literally split thr country in half rendering west great qing useless as well as the territories I liberated
I feel like the way you played Japan, they could make a great tutorial nation for the game to figure out how to build a profit in an isolated market. And understand those kind of mechanics for the game before playing for the bigger market.
I certainly would’ve done that if they didn’t.
A good strat for conquest is to make the ai release a nation. Then you puppet it and then annex subject. It massively decreases the amount of infamy compared to conquer state
Laith can you do monarchist America?
Getting that Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere started early, I see.
One of the problems of isolationism is clippers/steamers u dont need any because u dont need ports for trade but u still produce them even on the highest military shipbuilding production so your shipyards allways struggle because clippers are too cheap. Also my first name is dave-james.
Theirs a mod that separates Military and non military shipyards and it makes a world of a difference
I love how he’s making what are essentially muskets and cannons when America, France, and Britain haven’t come yet
wondering if we will get laiths reaction to morrocos victory in one of these videos, I really enjoy them
Hey Laith, I got three Vicky 3 challenges for you.
You should play the non-meta way. Play a Ethnostate and still have the slave trade. Try to still have a successful country. Maybe play as Brazil for this challenge?
Next play Persia, try to keep your independence and form the Persian Empire. Try to industrialize the nation and liberalize the nation. (Maybe communist, Anarchist, or a Republic) hell you could tie it in with the Ethnostate Challenge.
You could also play as the pope, and try to do Crusades against the Protestants, Muslims, and Treaty ports around the world. While all your laws forming around the church, like state religion, charity hospitals and religious schools.
*Sees title*
All of Asia: "Ah shit, here we go again"
i think there should be a way to claim colonizable terrain in some kind of treaty, so that stuff like in hokkaido doesnt happen. tis would also fix the weird usa/canada-borders that often form
PLEASE use the F3 menu for building instead of going into the state view. Then you wont get lost on where which factory is :)
I feel as if he cheated. Did he produce that irl notepad himself or import it? I think not thus he lost the challenge
I'd assume he'dve built a paper mill atleast once so I'm going to say it's a legitimately gained notepad
So its day 33 and im gonna mix up the challenge a little bit. Play as Croatia, get free from austria, after that you cannot ally them anymore ever, cannot ally serbia, ottomans, montenegro and russia, that does include the wars you cannot ask them to help you. You also cannot trade with any of them import and export. Form Yugoslavia first then after you do that form Danubian state. At the end you must be in top 5 powers. And one last thing I wanna say thank you for everything you do. I love your videos and you made me buy Vic 3 it looked too good to pass on. Im now a crackhead and addicted to Vic 3 thanks to you. My girlfriend hates you cuz of that. :D
The Laith is Lathe meme will never die, we must not allow it!
That isn't why the Japanese really attacked Pearl Harbor: What you described was among the main goals for Japanese Expansion up to and during the War, but the MAIN reason why they attacked Pearl Harbor was they very mistakenly assumed the U.S. was going to initiate "Plan Orange" in their inevitable war against Japan (This plan stated that the U.S. would engage Japan in an all-out decisive battle at the Philippines, with a focus on battleships.). Japan thus thought they could cripple the fleet enough to give them a big upper hand in this battle. This battle however, never happened: The U.S. instead strategically retreated from the Philippines, and instead focused on far more dispersed engagements across the Pacific, and most critically moved towards using aircraft carriers and to a lesser extent submarines as their primary source of naval power.
Nice video though.
I think you're confusing the Japanese strategy for winning the war once the decision was made to attack at all with the Japanese geo-political reasons for starting the war in the first place. Those are two different things. Laith is talking about the reason for attacking the US in general, it just so happened that the majority of the US Navy was in Pearl Harbor. You're talking about why they attacked specifically Pearl Harbor rather than any other US possession.
the fact is because FDR (with Soviet spy) creating Embargo oil and The Hull Note against Japanese Empire then ordered US Navy to sending tons of warships to Preal Harbor for baiting Japan to "shooting bullet first", and that happened
even if Japanese Empire chose to not attacking Preal Harbor and keep ignored or asking negotiations with FDR many times, this is just only time when Imperial Japanese military finally doesn't have oil anymore for defending himself and US military in Preal Harbor can invading Japanese islands without worry
Laith, university's increase the speed that people train into new jobs eg. officers for your navy (and every other job). Also, pay for your government wages so people work in the uni's
With Laiths philosophy of military training we would still be left with Peasant Levies.
0:30 me who has concured all of east asia and going into middle asia and USA in historical round Call of War xD
I just noticed i have an year of experience in that real life strategie game. Im getter than paid ppl lmao
My strategy as Japan or any country with way too many pops is to just focus on one state. I got Kansai on optimal tax capacity and made it like 80% of my GDP by the 1880's. It's probably more effective than spreading out your government buildings. I think.
ah, the London strategy
aka your entire economy collapses as soon as theres a single traffic jam on a major road
Play isolationist and hoard all the world's opium.
Just watched the whole vid!
Why is yt slapping me with an add every 2 minutes? Is it because the videos on my second monitor or would it have something to do with the channel? IK its kind of a me problem but this is the first time I'm noticing them rolling so often.
They really need to 1) increase AI reluctance to form treaties with unrecognized nations, 2) have an equivalent of subsistence farms for natural resources like mines because building them is tedious
NO HEAD R'NOW, LUV, HOUR LONG LAITH UPLOAD
Have you ever played total warhammer 3. It is another strategy but u get to experience the epic battles against crazy foes or u can be some crazy demon thing
I usually go for colonization as the first research as japan to make sure russia doesnt steal that land, super hard to take it back if they manage to steal it.
59:39 Opium is a painkiller. Something I’m sure that militaries found useful.
You should try applying a similar strategy with Madadascar
Naval base employment is increasing slowly because your training rate is low and unupgraded. The right hand production method affects how fast you train.
Dave is a Spiffing Brit thing.. 😆 Coffee drinker for life!
given the amount of universities build, Laith figured out planned economy but still does not understand the inovation and education system
I tried this same thing and got serfdom abolished in the first rotation
I think the reason you get people in the navy so slowly is because people don't have qualifications for it. So you would need universities.
Easiest way to get Samurai loyal is switching to a professional army
Me, a student of history: "Wait, *WAT*"
dayuuuum u should rename this to japan tutorial
I did something similar and in my game Oregon got free from Britain and I instantly puppeted them🤣🤣
Laith can you do a run where you make the Philippines independent and conquer all the pacific island nations and Japan, and take over SE Asia?
i read the title and was like so irl then?
Click on "market price" to sort the goods by price
Lore of Vic 3 momentum 100
Laith roleplaying soviet supreme council 😂😂
Ware wa kangun waga teki wa
Tenchi irezaru chouteki zo
Teki no taishou taru mono wa
Kokon musou no eiyuu de
Kore ni shitagou tsuwamono wa
Tomo ni hyoukan kesshi no shi
Kijin ni hajinu yuuaru mo
Ten no yurusanu hangyaku wo
Okoseshi mono wa mukashi yori
Sakaeshi tameshi arazaru zo
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
Mikuni no fuuto mono no fu wa
Sonomi wo mamoru tamashii no
Ishiin kono kata sutaretaru
Nippontou no ima sara ni
Mata yo ni izuru mi no homare
Teki mo mikata mo moro tomo ni
Yaiba no shita ni shisu beki ni
Yamato-damashii aru mono no
Shinubeki toki wa ima naruzo
Hito ni okurete haji kakuna
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
Mae wo nozomeba tsuruginari
Migi mo hidari mo mina tsurugi
Tsurugi no yama ni noboranwa
Mirai no koto to kikitsuru ni
Kono yo ni oite manoatari
Tsurugi no yama ni noboru nomo
Wagami no naseru zaigou wo
Horobosu tame ni arazushite
Zoku wo seibatsu suru ga tame
Tsurugi no yama mo nann' no sono
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
Tsurugi no hikari kirameku wa
Kumoma ni miyuru imazuma ka
Yomo ni uchidasu housei wa
Ten ni todoroku ikazuchi ka
Teki no yaiba ni fusumono ya
Tama ni kudakete tama no o no
Taete hakanaku usuru mi no
Kabane wa Tsumite yama wo nashi
Sono chi wa nagarete kawa wo nasu
Shichi ni hairu nomo kimi ga tame
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
Dangan'uhi no aida nimo
Futatsu naki mi wo oshimazu ni
Susumu wa ga mi wa noarashi ni
Fukarete kiyuru shiratsuyu no
Hakanaki saigo wo togurutomo
Chugi no tame ni ususu mi no
Shishite kai aru mono naraba
Shisurumo sarani uraminashi
Wareto owowan hitotachi wa
Ippo mo ato e hikunakare
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
Ware ima koko ni
Shinan mi wa
Kimi no tame nari Kuni no tame
Sutsu beki mono wa inochi nari
Tatoi (tatohi)
Kabane wa kuchinu tomo
Chugi no tame ni usuru mi no
Na wa kanbashiku nochi no yo ni
Nagaku tsutaete
Nokoru nan
Bushi to umareta
Kai mo naku
Gi mo naki inu to
Iwaruruna
Hikyou mono to na
Soshirare so
Teki no horoburu sore made wa
Susume ya susume moro tomo ni
Tamachiru tsurugi nuki tsurete
Shisuru kakugo de susumu beshi
Love these bids
How long he didn't recognize he has so many Ships and Soldiers in Reserve without a General.
This was cool! It’s kinda funny that you never attacked Korea but, you own Cuba?…🥳
The militarism was implied
Laith please for the love of god get the more spreadsheets mod
Go, go, go, Senpai!
But can you make a militaristic Galicia Volhynian horde?
"open the country . stop letting it be closed" ~ USA
"I created millitaristic japan"
did you know that the sky is blue?!?!??!?
Shout Out to All the people taking handwritten notes during lectures^^
If laith skipps out of researching the late, does that mean laith will never be born in this universe?
18:52 the Wokou pirates are the new Somali pirates stealing steam ships passing by china
More min max games there fun to watch :)
>Militaristic Japan
Ah lads not again
a yes, miltaristic japan
It is unfortunate that after all that hype, just like with Imperia, Victoria 3 was abandoned just as soon as it launched because it was poorly received by paradox's niche community. I was kinda looking forward to content being added for specific events, I mean in this time period the Imperial Restoration was a big deal, I mean Japan had a brief but rather significant civil war in the 19th century.
Kanto is from pokemon and kansai is the actual onr
I've watched so many Korean TH-camrs control Korea on Vic3 and make it the great power with mods that are meant to raise the difficulty (with all the "hyper-realistic" historically accurate nerf mods to tank Joseon's economy in a way that PDX couldn't invest their resources to do so). So I really loved turning my brain off and watching this one as Japan does what Japan is supposed to do in the local neighborhood better than the historical AI.
I accidentally do isolationist every game by making my country self-sufficient and I only export stuff no buying
lathe please achknowledge me
I was doing well with Japan being completely self reliant. Then I finally figured out how to open up to the world and did that. I was in the 1870s around that point. Also the whole war mechanic is busted in my opinion. One could outnumber an opponent 15 to 1 with an army armed with tanks versus an opponent with muskets. The moment the opponent goes into defense mode, suddenly an army would be walking into a meat grinder with the highly larger and more advanced army being vaporized. I know this as I have experienced it many times.
It's not really a meatgrinder, because the combat width is so absurdly low. Pick up a mod that increases the combat width. Tech still dominates.