I appear to have lost a couple of screens, But I'll attempt to give you an explanation of what happened. Basically, Houston fell, and I started to move all my troops into Dallas, which is a jungle and gets a defensive bonus. Unfortunately, I accidentally left a brigade in Okmulgee, and the following happened.
Obviously I can't affordd to throw troops down the drain like that. But my 'divide and conquer' strategy means I do have to do stuff like this:
But the USA is far stronger than me. One of the provinces I occupied in the previous update is taken back easily, and I've got to say there's really not much I can do about it.
But I have been occupying parts of Colorado for a while now (I left occupying forces when I was hounding in the last chapter), and it's finally starting to pay off.
I won't bore you with all the screens, but the fact is most of Colorado is occupied soon after this.
In an added bonus, I get some prestige!
See, other countries sing our praises! Wish they'd stop the USA steamrollering us then, but you can't have everything. Unless you're the UK in 1.2.
I was going through the diplomacy screen, to see what nations I have to overtake to for Great Powerness, and I found this.
Industry 0, Military 20, both far below me, and they're a GP! That's the effect Idealism (and possibly Romanticism) has. It won't last, but it's a bonus all the same.
Okmulgee falls, this means my stack, which I have moved to Oklahoma City, will soon be under attack.
Unfortunately, with all this, I miss a rather large army on the western front.
*Sigh*
You know they say bad news comes in threes? Well, here is proof:
This is not the disaster it would have been five years ago, but it's still a sad end for a Mexican hero. Fare well, we salute you, and all the rest of it. Now let's get back to good stuff.
Sorry for the bad screen. What you can see here is my 36,000 strong army in a jungle, commanded by a +3 defensive general, with the (offmap) 33,000 US troops steaing towards it from Okmulgee. You can also see twenty thousand US troops sitting in Pueblo. Together these two armies would pose a great threat to my stronghold. The thing is, in an example of the AI needing severe improvement, the twenty thousand troops are
standing still. No further comment is required.
Anyway, they attack, and I'm liking the dice rolls.
But not as much as I like the casualties.
Yes, that 1414 dead
per day for the USA., and 88 for Mexico. Just shows the wonders of defensive strongholds.
This unfortunately does not last.
Terrible isn't it?
Ok, enough of the deadpan, this huge. To illustrate how big this is, take a look at that 3.7 score. Take a good, long look at it. And then look at this.
Do a bit of basic maths and yes, you will have noticed that one battle has turned the war completely on it's head.
And that's not all. My momentum gathers - is it victory I smell in the air?
Of course, the USA has other ideas. It needs to respond, and those troops that were hanging back go in.
It's New Year's Eve. The election results will be announced tomorrow. A battle has just started that will decide the fate of the war. What's gonna happen? Find out next time on A Welshman's Quest fro Doritos, san Vic2 time, same Vic2 station!