Rebels without a pause - a Tribal AAR

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Enewald - Allah is merciful so I'm sure you'll be just fine. Failing that you can always revolt

Macknull - The answer is simple I have far too much willingnesss to engage in unending micromanagement while playing nearly the entire game on the slowest speed. I should get out more o

Malurous - Not sure what happened with Bohemia - the battles went really well and I just didn't have many problems. The Bohemian armies did end up sitting at the frontline whle I grabbed provinces behind them.

Boris ze Spider - I was expecting it to be much worse as well.

GaiusC -


urdh - Thought that it was odd.

sprites - It's true the European holdings will be rich once they convert and core.;

Chief Ragusa -

morningSIDEr - TSC's are getting easier to manage outside of the European provinces. It's all march and kill LOL

Johan11 - Liberation is not guaranteed but it is certainly possible

Davout said:

There is only the thinnest wafer between France and the Horde now. I hope from reading your AAR's that I can divine the likely strategy for dealing with the Blue Blob:

- maintain a narrow front comprised of the Bohemian corridor of 3 provinces of Breslau, Rtibor and Moravia. This will funnel in the invading forces to increase attrition and slow down the rate of losing provinces.
- Fortify the Bohemian and Polish provinces as high as possible, again for attrition.
- Bohemian rebel factories to help wear down the numbers. An old fashioned TSC defence would be handy. On the other hand, this means you would be praying the French came before the Bohemian provinces cored.
- Patience. The first war is always the longest and I expect the French would reach Kiev before they start to run out of steam. The next war would be easier and the third would be the killer.

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Perhaps I write too many AARs as that's pretty much what I'd like to do :rofl:

Vesimir - There's quite a lot more Sunni provinces out there - all over SE Asia and a lot of Africa. Poland does look incredibly like an alt-Brandenburg.

Malurous - So how are you finding you new overlords?

Ar7 - I'm fairly sure that France can inflict a huge amount of damage on me - against lower tech, level two fortresses they'll probably storm all the way to Sarai.

aldriq - India next and some tidying up.

GaiusC - It's an IN thing to use Historical units and we're moving straight into the height of French military power - the units will be the best available whatever they are - not that I've played many Latins in IN.

Chief Ragusa - I'm not letting the AI anywhere near the Horde - god knows what the AI would actually do.

Malurous - Thanks for explaining.

Axe27 - Davout has it right, I'll let the French march into Horde land and run up some WE. I doubt they'll run out of manpower or have rebel problems until after I've sacked Paris a few times.

Chapter Fifty Three​

Let’s start with a couple of interesting maps…

Central Europe - January 1650



I’m not very far away from France now. I’d like to all but finish off Poland, Bohemia and the Ottomans first.

India - January 1650



India is now a mix of Sunni and Hindu states. I’m confident I can beat any of them easily or all of them slowly so I’ll take India as opportunities arise.

The Economy




Quite simply I have a weak economy - I have a low tax level and I also have a lot of poor provinces. I’m converting what I can of the Horde’s lands as that removes tax penalties and reduces revolt risk. I’m very vulnerable to losing tax income through revolt risk.

Trade is the only sensible way to up my income - but I can only trade at home; fortunately I now have six COTs.



Comparative Economies



Income sorted. On an inflation sort only the Horde, Portugal and Meissen are at zero.

Comparative Technologies



Sorted by my best tech I don’t appear on the leader board. I’m still a long way from being competitive although I am doing better than anyone outside Europe. This list is basically all my real enemies plus the usual Latin tech minors that have a high value economy for their size and who are probably serious traders.

The Military



Army expansion isn’t as fast as I’d like - I certainly don’t have enough troops in Europe and Anatolia is undefended. There are currently 16000 men available for any war in China.

Comparative Armies



Comparative Navies



Of course this doesn’t really show that my fleet is seriously outdated.

Ideas and Sliders



Future moves are most likely to be towards Quality as I try and compensate for my generally weaker units and lagging tech compared with Western Europe.

Pies



As a water fearing nation we’re not big on fish.

The Horde and Vassals - January 1650



Note the colonial push into the Indian Ocean islands. It’s where we send people into exile…

The World - January 1650



As ever when playing IN on Very Hard the Western Europeans have enough money to go crazy with colonies.