I blame low literacy rates, you can't hold it against the peasants if they don't know León from Lyon
I blame low literacy rates, you can't hold it against the peasants if they don't know León from Lyon
Great, getting rebels to fight your battles for you what are you? England?, only kidding, i am very jealous that you seem to get so much land for so little effort, Le'monde cest moi is i belive the term you need (though my french is very bad)
wow, i dont think ive ever used your tactics for gaining land, ive just taken the BB points and got them all in a peace deal
I've actually been trying to do this since 1.3 so it will be interesting to see. I tried with France several times in 3.2 and no luck. My current game w/ Castille I have a chance if things keep going well.
Just a few things I've learned in my many attempts. After 1650, the BB costs of non euro provinces jump up to normal, so I think europe first is a bad idea. (You also get more shots at good advisors if you keep more euro nations longer). Inheritance would be great. Try to monopolize colonization. Try to encourage blobbing in europe especially germany/italy. Avoid declaring war it's wasted BB.
I modded that Boundary dispute event to happen very often in all of my games.
It has some nice consequences for everyone nation in the game.
But that one was very useful!
Hah, Province is Occitan...
You have 100% war score, don't you? So why won't you just sue for peace, gain some land and come back 5 years later ? Is it some WC tactic to wait for provinces to defect? =)
Yes, clearly you can only do the event once or it would be cheating.FEEDBACKCastille can do this easily, if you're not above exploiting the nice Reconquista mission. As long as you annex and then release a Sunni Granada, you'll get that nice -20 BB mission over and over again. Even at only one go, you can still get much of France for 'free' with the event - I did that in a recent Castille game.
Three a game sounds about right. Here's to hoping my three are huge empires at the far end of Europe.Yes, clearly you can only do the event once or it would be cheating.
As far as inheritance/PU's, I get RM's w/ everyone large in europe, maintain them the entire game as a top priority. And keep my prestige maxed, and my BB as low as possible and I've found I average about 3 a game.
You get so many defections, i will definitely need to try this out. Awesome AAR.
Thanks. Hope it'll be worth following.Nice AAR!
*Suscribes*
Vizcaya is Basque culture, and Galicia is Galician culture. Neither of those are 'accepted' cultures of Castille, and so they eventually will defect. The owner's exact same culture provinces and any accepted cultures will never defect, as far as I know.Btw, how did you get two defections?
Because they are not castillan culture but are catholic?
I honestly did expect them to attack right away, but war comes soon enough.Good stuff. Am kinda surprised that England didn't DoW you after the embargo, but, c'est la guerre!
Still, some nice defections to speed you along your way, and some nice new lands in Iberia. And good points about keeping Castille down for so long through bankruptcies. Being relatively new to the game (owned it for ages, just haven't played much) I wouldn't have thought of that.
Shame about staying below the BB limit though, cos defensive wars save you BB points, something the BB wars would have sped along a bit. And once you get strong enough, pretty much nobody will attack you. Well, unless you spread a lot of guarantees around.
Guess I was thinking mainly of the HRE as it tends to add up very quickly if they're not all gobbled up by one of the majors nearby. Good points though, and I am curious to see how you will gobble up the HRE with staying under the BB limit.Defensive wars doesn't save you much, all things considered. One BadBoy point for declaring war? That only adds up if you're going to gobble up dozens of minors, and I'm trying to avoid that, short of missions.
Guarantees could work, but they have a way of drawing you into wars you don't want to fight - like with a nation you have a Royal Marriage and Military Access through.
1. I do believe I listed the army sizes in post #34, composed screenshot #2. Those were accurate as of in-game date February 18th, 1413. As I'm playing the game far ahead of the AAR at present, the numbers in the ledger 'now' are... somewhat different. I do have a screenshot from the onset of the war in a later part, though.1. Can you present the army size of yours and England (those in the ledger)? =)
2. What are your destinated land gains in the english-french war?
3. Who is allied with the England?
And BTW, you're doing good
Seems to all quiet on the western front at the moment, with Castile having no forces, you do like to let your enemies suffer for a while before you finish the war.
Nice work, I'm gradually beginning to feel more and more sorry for Castille as I keep seeing them kicked repeatedly in the AARs that I read
I'm now just wondering if that kind of continental success is normal for England when France leaves them alone for two minutes
Guess I was thinking mainly of the HRE as it tends to add up very quickly if they're not all gobbled up by one of the majors nearby. Good points though, and I am curious to see how you will gobble up the HRE with staying under the BB limit.
It certainly feels that way. On those occasions when I've seen an 8-8-8 monarch, I always expect him or her to die by the next day.The good ones die swiftly.