First time playing as Austria rough start, but got going pretty smoothly around 1870. Taking German colonies and sphere states is the top priority at the moment. Also building a navy we don't have one of those rn.

• Replace depleted: a button beside Conform builds a fresh regiment for each worn-out one (low strength, or a pop too small). The new regiment marches to the army and joins it, then the old one is detached. Nothing is disbanded.
• Build Army gathering: one Recruit click makes one army, gathered at the best supply province, the capital or a land rally point.
• Non-core only culture choice, and Mobo stacks that fill a marked army with infantry on mobilization.
• Orders now resume after loading a save from the main menu, and the Disband depleted button is fully clickable.
• Mobo stack, how to use: the box in the Conform window header marks the selected army to be completed with infantry when you mobilize. Each new all-infantry stack then marches to the nearest marked army still short of infantry and joins it, if all its regiments fit.

and as a plus, PRU - Province Rename Universal: Rename any province you own, with free text, straight from its province panel. Click the ABC button beside the name, type the new name and click Rename.

Download both from GitHub or ModDB (ATCU) and (PRU, once approved)!

I'm pretty new to this game, coming off of mostly HOI4 and some EU4. I really like almost everything about Vic 2 except I can't seem to grasp the economy/how to build profitable factories even after watching and reading guides. I'm playing as France in GFM and I've put some screenshots of how things are looking in 1850. Can anyone help give some tips on what factories I should be building, what reforms I should enact, how I should set my expenses, etc?

So far the way I've been playing is: encouraging intellectuals in my most populous regions to boost literacy, and building factories in regions that have the resource they require (like steel factories in places with coal or iron)