Technology Tree: Military tab, Napoleonic Warfare researching

About this game

Developer: Paradox Development Studio · Publisher: Paradox Interactive · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Tech / Research

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What to study

Victoria 3's technology screen is three trees wearing one coat. Production, Military and Society sit as tabs across a single full-screen graph, and the Military view shown here reads top-down as a story: two ticked tier-I medallions (Line Infantry, Artillery) feed Army Reserves and the node currently researching, Napoleonic Warfare, ringed in light, its progress stated twice, once on its own name plate (3.95K / 4.00K) and once in the header bar, which adds the two numbers that govern all research: Weekly Innovation 50 flowing in, and Technology Spread 18–56 arriving uninvited from the wider world. Researched nodes get a plain tick rather than a colour flood, locked tier-II nodes (General Staff, Logistics, Field Works, Shell Gun, Percussion Cap) sit dimmed at the foot with their Roman-numeral era badges, and curved dependency lines, never straight arrows, do the teaching. Frame at about 0:32 in the Release Trailer video (Steam), pipeline candidate v0_0007 at 32.2s.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

tech-tree top-bar

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Tree / web Nameplate Resource bar Progress bar Gauge Badge

Screen inventory

• TECHNOLOGY TREE header over three era tabs: Production, Military (active) and Society, with the left icon rail and top resource bar still visible around the panel
• current-research header bar: Napoleonic Warfare with a progress bar at 3.95K / 4.00K (50) and '(7 days left)', flanked by Weekly Innovation: 50 and Technology Spread: 18 - 56
• node medallions with painted icons and Roman-numeral era badges: Line Infantry (I) and Artillery (I), both ticked as researched
• second row: Army Reserves (I, ticked) and Napoleonic Warfare (I), the researching node ringed in light with its 3.95K / 4.00K (50) progress repeated on its name plate
• curved dependency lines running from the researched tier-I nodes down through the middle row to five locked tier-II nodes: General Staff, Logistics, Field Works, Shell Gun and Percussion Cap
• top bar in game state: resource deltas +173 / +775 / +720 and £ -466, the date November 8, 1837 (Sunday Morning) and the brass speed-control dial at top right

Top 3 colors

#303436 27%#3c3f3e 20%#282b2d 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Paradox Development Studio / Paradox Interactive, Victoria 3 screenshot: Release Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Paradox Interactive.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: pipeline candidate v0_0007 (32.2s, Release Trailer video, Steam) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); genuine in-game Technology Tree confirmed settled and legible (tab labels, all node names, era badges, ticks, header progress and innovation/spread figures all readable; settle probes at 31.0s and 33.0s bracket it, the Paris map shot before, the identical settled tree after); no trailer typography or marketing overlay on the frame

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