Another day Another War...
I'm starting to feel blue about this game. If I can't get my WE down it will all be over, and the big bad boy events are a real problem. But we didn't get this far by Quiting!
I really should have CD'ed out of all wars where I could gain nothing more quickly. I'm thinking Scandinavia, Milian and Brugundy. I kept tyring to get my WS higher for money when it was so not going to happen. Now I have carried the price of high WE ever since!
Ok so putting the blues aside lets look to this next war:
Column A is moving towards Pennyrile and is a 7/6/1 stack
my 10k 3/6/1 stack with a manouver 6 general in kentucky drops the artillery and moves to Pennyrile where he scorches the earth and retreats to Cahokia to join back up with the artillery.
Column B is moving towards Cherokee and therefore Manacan my nation focus with only a level 1 fort. There are no forces ready or able to get there to scorch the earth. The stack is 8/10/0
Column C is moving towards Santee and is a 9/10/1 . My 3/6/1 stack in Pamlico is way too small for this and so sends an infantry ahead to Santee. I assign a high manouver general but while the unit arrives in time to scorch the earth it is caught and destoryed.
The three sieges start!
Alright so I sit back to let attriction work and wait an opportunity to strike.
Mahican in New England revolts!! Thanks guys!
I also get my first Naval victories! I'm not sure what was going on, most of my morale vanished and it held on by a thread despite hugely out numbering the enemy. Is there anything I need know about naval stacks?
Santee then revolted... The sieging forces put the revolt down but thier morale is dented and so I order troops to make an attempt to raise the siege.
With my 3/6/1 army joined back together in the West in Cahokia and with Attrician having hurt the enemy in Pennyrile I move to attack and on 21 Sept the siege was raised.
The news from the harder fight in Santee is worse:
The beaten West column retreats to Shawnee but my army overtakes it and defeats it again. I break a seige force off to siege Tennesse hoping to draw something away from Portugals sieges. The broken enemy force retreats... to Cherokee... ARGHHH!
The enemy there has been hurt hard by attritian and I do not want to let the so nearly dead stack go. I order my units to Cumberland for a little reinforcement first and then to assult the enemy in Cherokee...
My navy is in Unanmi, the enemies transports are just south of Santee and so I'm hoping for an opportunity to sink them.
I catch some more ships but not the transports but every little helps and it is so nice to hurt their fleets for once! Especially as the enemy is reinforcing the siege in Santee .
My force in Cumberland recoverd and was ordered south. The fortress fell with help just a few days out.
Portugal tease me by waiting a few days before annexing the territory.
The enemy splits up, one stack stays the other moves towards Cheraw where my smaller army hopes to make use of the terrain. The Other towards Shawnee, where my main force will attack them.
At this point the opportunist Irish decide to try to settle some scores:
Grrr
You can see my War Exhaustion has climb to nearly 9. Not too bad for a start just under 8. But the next phase of the war is more likely to be on her soil.
The ensueing battle of Shawnee was decisive..
She retreats to Cherokee, I follow for another victory. Part of the stack retreats to Cheraw the other towards Shanwee. My main force races to overtake the larger on in Shawnee. my smaller force moves to Cheraw to cut off the smaller defenders. Santee falls and instead of sieging scorched Pamlico she moves onto my colony and then toward the troops in Cheraw.
I see an opportunity to get at Portugals undefended transports, first I have to clear out the squadron on watch at Unanmi both actions are won!
She has one transport left! Huzzah!
In Cheraw a Skirmish is won but a larger force is coming but I hope to win or if not inflict more damage by defending in the mountains, This hurts the final stack and of course me:
The final battle in Shawnee is won but both my stacks are low on moral.
Cheraw retreats to Monacan which is building a level two fort finally, and the other moves to relieve the 1k sieges portugal put on Tennesse and Cahokia. This should give her time to recover and drive towards the siege in Cheraw.
The Irish had push forward with a 0/4/1 stack and where sieging Powhatten when a stack ordered south finally arrive and caught them, the retreat, forwards, into Conoy, my new stack a 2/4/0 moves to overtake them.
The main stack finally arrives after in Cheraw, wins the battle but hardly hurts the stack. It's back to the races!
My troops overtake the retreating stack and do some serious damage in Chiaha, this is the second overtaking, the earlier battle in Catawba ended with few casualties as did the Cheraw one. My weaker stack moves to raise the siege of Monacan, it's a small 1 k siege.
WE is climbing but slowly which is nice when:
Ok so I need more advisor slots! lol I need that BB down, especially as I can't take much from any war because of it!
And then:
Ok so the little guys are in again... I may only have enough BB for a couple of provinces! I think Ungava must be one, to lose a border with a european state. Advice please, would taking mimmac do the same or will the land bridges between Epekwitk and Unamakik and Arcadia count as a border?
Anyway I'm not too worried about scotland until I notce this:
But that is their whole army!! I order a large stack from the south to the north dropping the artilery and giving it my manouver 6 general.. Haul Ass boys! Haul Ass.
I also raise a regiment of merc is Moose cree... about a month later I realise it will have to finish the ship first so i cancel it and move it to Abitibi, but it will fail to arrive in time to scorch the earth... sigh...
First the scots move south and destory 6 regiments in labrador before marching for Moose Cree...
It is lucky that there are no other Portugesse troops in america. small armies are siegeing her cities in the south, easily destroying the 1k armies that arrive from central america. These forces also crush soem 4000 Irish in thier Floridian colonies and start to burn her other gulf state colonies. In the North Mimmac falls and my fleet is hunting down Scottish and Irish transports. They all bring a 1/2 column to labrador to retake the colony and siege Ungava. Scotland's all or nothing stack marches on and sieges unscorched Moose Cree.
My army finally arrives and gives battle to the enemy and wins a costly victory!
Let the pingpong continue. The battle of cree is almost as bad and tt is then I realise that the art is slowing my stack down, I drop it and will finally overtake to destory the enemy in Moose Cree.
Ireland have offered a white peace. I refused as I had not yet destroyed all her colonies in the south.
Scotland are not prepared to accept peace and Portugal is taking stab hit peace offers. It all looks good right? But WE is just under 15.
My own blockades are hurting her badly, if I'm careful I should be able to seriously mess her up!
Stab hits ahoy. I hope not to have to go into Central america for the win.
Once what remains of the Scottish stack is killed and the siege complete we may be in a position to dictate a peace.
Badboy is the problem, I can afford only 2 provinces. I'm thinking, Cherokee and Ungava. Cherokee has proven to be vital for defence against portugal due to it's mountains. Ungava is obvious, it should reduce the number of people I'm always having to fight.
WE is high and will get higher. sigh... The stack up north is reinforcing. I wish, like in HOI I could turn it off for a bit.
In the south and around arcadia I can be careful not to let attritain hurt me, too much.
Advice on possible peaces would be appreciated... I'm also thinking I may just take money and forget territory for now. That infamy needs to come down and fast. But I so badly need to reduce the number of my borders!
Portugals only transport is unprotected and trying to land troops in Ladbrador. I'll move my fleet to incercept. once away from the Irish 2/6/0/0 in port I'll split the fleet up to ensure the faster Light ships catch that last transport.
I accidentally siezed in stead of burnt Atakapa, I'll let a 1k army of portugal's take it and then burn it. The provenices are mostly supply limit 3 or 4 so my stack should be safe from attrician. I'll be careful yo fight any 1k armies from central america in the supply limit 4 areas.
I have a slider option and I want to move to narrowminded, I need the extra WE and Stability and eventually missionaries. Not sure what I'll get faster, another NI or to narrowminded 1. I think the next NI has to be Humanist Tolerance.
Advice please people! I've had to destroy over 100 regiments and I guess WE isn't that bad when you consider I had to do that starting at 8.