I didnt take anything at all it seems :wacko: I guess my BB was too close for comfort. And now we have France as the HRE
No more venturing into Germany at all, as long as they call the shots. Wouldn't want the well known 30k stack of doom with the lucky +1 shock king gallavanting in my backyard.
w00t? Warning finally paid of! Look at that. A war with Lith Muscovy and Poland and all I got to do is accept
Which I did! Haha I fear nothing. I'm currently building as much troops as my land limit allows me. My economy can't pay for it, but what the heck as long as I go to war every time I can I can extort money from the beaten nations. I hope...
As you can see I use slightly larger stacks, since Im scared. I mean Lith has a lot of troops are itching for combat and Muscovy has a lot of cav ready to swarm into my precious lands. If I would use 3k stacks now they would get destroyed instantly. I also suspect Muscovy to be lucky!? I'm not sure which nations are lucky when choosing historical (besides France Austria England Ottomans Castille Sweden).
My cav is moving in to kill the 3k stack in Podlasia, I normally hate attacking, Id rather defend, but I have to take make use of every opportunity to exact some damage on Lith.
Meanwhile the German Minors seem hellbend on choosing the worst possible emperor.
Do they want to get gobbled up? Do they want to be united into a greater France? Please fix this Pdox this can't be working as intended! France as the HRE....
Meanwhile my cav is going around carefully picking of smaller stacks, still no sign of Muscovies stacks of cav. I guess they are beating Zaph back to the stone age.
I used by *best* general for the job, 3 shock. I wont engage the large lith stacks offensively. I would only lose extra men.
If I can get somewhere before they can though and kill the small stack while the large stack is still incoming it's all good. I must make sure to kill or defeat the smaller stack that was aready in the province though, because if the large lith stack arrives before the already present stack is defeated I will still suffer from the -1 penalty and against their now combined armies!
Ehm what? Just a 1 shock general? Where did my previous general go then>? He died already or what?
Damn!
At least there are now 2k less Lith soldiers.
I peace out with the Poles asap, I know that Zaph is already defeat or so close to defeat that it makes no difference, meaning that I will be seeing some Muscovians soon. And Lublin is a very very nice province to have!
The first Muscovian stacks are incoming. We meet in Lithuania and duke it out. I just want to take this opportunity to emphasize the relative strenght of Muscovy and even worse Russia. They
won't collapse! They
won't shatter! They laught at WE and rebels, even more so then France. Do not ever let them have it their way and form Russia! I once made the mistake in a test game to give away some Novgo land (my ally) as an easy way out, but having to fight Russia somewhat later on because they annexed Novg was not fun! Russia is the improved France, especially since it's so large. It takes ages to go from a to b and let's not forget the attrition winters, that hurst like hell and is almost unavoidable.
So sieging with relatively large stacks it is then. There is no point in trying to actually storm any city yet, latin inf sucks morale wise ^^ Not just morale wise though, they just plain suck.
Sure let's cement our relationship!
Should have done this myself, but to be honest Austria is rather insignificant. They are still exactly the same size as they were in 1399. Talk about a lack of ambition. My Hungarian buddies have outperformed them!
If you all hoped for a flawless victory then I'm sorry to dissappoint you. But I can't deal with their numbers
and Lith at the same time. I just can't. Buying them out is the best thing to do.
Now my work is cut out for me: advance my minions advance! We can see the pretty big Muscovian stacks moving out as well as the laid out path for my own soldiers.
Good news
Also take note of the fact that the Province of Zaphoria is nice and rebellish at this time ^^
More good news
Even more good news. Since the Lith army is seemingly paralised I just keep on moving. They still have over 18k worth of troops!
But since I have a 10k stacks standing in Volhynia they will not move their main stack anywhere!
As you can see, just 1 (!) WE for me and a nice 11 for Lith. Their long term prospects are not that good ^^
The first added core! Good news, very good news! I now have the grand total of 3 cores!
They would not accept my peace offer of 25 ducats? Cool! Take that stab hit then stubborn Lithuanians!
Expected
And another stab hit, stubborn fools!
They finally decide to move in: My army in Polesia is attacked first, I decided that this will be their end even if it will cost me some WE, so I move in all my present forces.
The initial fight was on because of my superior numbers. I took the army with with the best morale and most complete units and started the pursuit, resulting in their utter destruction.
And once my BB cooled down I asked them for three provinces
To end it all :