At least you managed to fight Bohemia to a standstill this time. That bodes well for the future, at least if Bohemia doesn't blob in the meantime, as the player almost always gets stronger over time.
You limited the losses as best you could while taking a toll on Bohemian allies. I think that the advances you made during the war, as well as the manufactury will help any future wars you have immensely. A good showing none the less.
I wonder when you will get in a war with Frenchies...
Just finished reading this and I like what I see. I like how you have managed to expand quite a bit while only taking core territories. Bohemia indeed needs to be dealt with somehow. France is getting scary. Methinks you either need a strong ally to fight them or you need to expand yourself to the point were you can beat them in a few limited wars and gradually break their power.
At least you managed to fight Bohemia to a standstill this time. That bodes well for the future, at least if Bohemia doesn't blob in the meantime, as the player almost always gets stronger over time.
Bohemia was the emperor, right? If yes, WP is quite a successful peace deal.
Next on the Gentlemen's Home Corner...
France comes calling with cannon instead of a card
A Baltic coastline to add to your possessions on the North Sea. France is looking ever more worrying by the day, but still not quite neighbouring you yet. Have your been working to keep your relationship up with them?
Bohemia taking territory to the east is worrying, but with any luck it might slow down their teching and get them involved in wars away from your borders.
I'm heartened to see Milan doing well - I have a soft spot for them.
A good province to add and is that a manu in there as well?
Ottoman expansion looks almost OTL.
Bohemia? I would call that Zapadslavia at least .
Your expansion is very qualitative - annexing only core provs gives you a temporal advantage over a long-term disadvantage.
As long as you don't have to 'protect' German minors against France you're fine. Steady incorporation seems a safer option.
That was very nice luck to get a core on a CoT. It should really help funding an army that can take on the top powers.
That's good, a COT of your own. Only grabbing cores and cores to be (missions) is great way of expanding. I've been trying it in a Frankfurt game, but in the 1760s I'm growing impatient for the last three or four provinces to form Germany. The best thing is that all of those provinces are rich from the beginning, and you have time to build all buildings in all of them. Regimental Camps in 13 provinces means a lot for manpower too.
Phew. I'm glad to see you didn't get jumped during the war, and now have a small, but perhaps valuable ally in Hamburg. A COT, cored and another port. It would be difficult to colonize though without taking land you aren't cored on.
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Awesome AAR, you should be proud of expanding Brunswick that far. If the boundary disputes allow it, will you form Germany?
Excellent progress, hopefully the religious turmoil in France unhinges their ability to expand into the Germanies
Excellent progress indeed. Forming Germany, however, would need a lot of lucky disputes.
But if you actually have that luck, man, you are swimming in cores.
Oh also is the Cuzco AAR dead/on ice? I really enjoyed that one too. Even more than this one~.