The Southern Eagle: A Mexico AAR

DKM said:

Did you accept the alliance?

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As Tanzhang said, yes, I took the alliance. I'm pretty sure that I've been influencing Brazil (after all, the CSA is already in my sphere, time to move on).

alscon said:

Clearly your cavalry and mobile artillery had llamas before. Who said the Europeans brought horses to America, when in fact it was the invention of Stables?

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Buckingham said:

What's next?

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Profit???

Once safely in 6th place, and with over 100 Prestige, I decide to finally enact National Conference, giving me free research points, which are like the best thing ever (without actually being the best thing ever).


With an adult male population of 4.17 Million, I am roughly on par with the US of A in sheer numbers. They do outnumber me in craftsmen and soldiers, however, and significantly at that. What is important about this, though, is that I am making ground on them, and if the trend continues, I should be able to actively beat them in any head-to-head wars.


As we can see, they do have me substantially on industrial score, and their military is technically stronger. Optimistically speaking, their sphere is utter crap, and I'd take my one sphereling and satellite, the CSA and California, over all of their friends any day. Denmark also briefly made it into Great Power status, although based on their score of 187 (40 lower than Russia) they're either right on the brink or already slipping out of GP rank.


We're building a fleet. The first person to guess why gets a shout-out in the next update (and possibly a cookie). Now, to be frank, my navy sucks. It's horrible, partly because I have 2 naval techs (I think Egypt starts with more), and I'm not taking the time to build Man o' Wars. Luckily, most nations don't have strong fleets in the Western Hemisphere (except America, of course).


The fleet (mostly consisting of transports, will assemble on the Eastern Coast at San Pedro de Sul.


Ok, let's look at immigration again. By now, the overall rate has gone down, but if we look at the US we'll see that...


We now hold the advantage over them. The more immigrants we get, the better it'll be. Once we have a population advantage, I am confident that I can keep or expand it, but we most definitely need to get to that point first.


Empiricism finishes, giving a roughly 6 additional research points a day. I consider going for the next culture tech in line, but eventually dismiss it in favor of...


Getting up to two naval techs is important, because it means doubling our technical knowledge of the navy. Also, these techs will fly by, especially with Empiricism finished.


Why would you look at that. It appears that the number of immigrants has increased substantially. Let's hope that this is more than our Northern "friends".


Looks like Mr. Bald Eagle isn't feeling the love as much as we are. We shall soon surpass even these pathetic excuses for Americans (let's face it, there's only one dominant power in the New World).


And the Bears continue to rake in a smaller, but still respectable, chunk of the travelers.


I start fully influencing Brazil (apparently they offered an alliance before i could even make them Cordial. They seem like decent folk. With Brazil under my thumb, a whole host of tropical resources, as well as the most powerful military in South America, will be allied to moi.


While peace was all nice and good, it's time to take (arguably) the best province in SA off of the Colombians. Antioquia is really quite good, on par with some of the best American states at the start of the game.


Also important to note that Colombia is in the American Sphere, bt I'm really not afraid of those Yankees anymore. The CSA will act as a meatshield, that will give me ample time and space to win any war of attrition. The only real concern is the US somehow gaining a significant military tech advantage, which I should be able to monitor.


One of the more important discoveries out there. One more step up the stairs to more or less free colonization abilities.


I decide to work on sphereing the Ottomans. Chances are that I won't have them for a while, and they're in a pretty nasty war (more on that later), but they are still fairly large (perhaps the largest nation that isn't a great power, China excluded), and so should provide me plenty of resources, if I can get them under my control. The Ottomans also have one of the better militaries in the world, despite their diminutive ranking.


Why influence them now? Because an event fired (possibly on a rebel victory, one of the reasons for no prestige) that cleared or destroyed almost all relations between them and major powers. Another event fired that allowed me to gain some influence, which means that almost immediately I can put myself at cordial.


Conditions for the Panama Canal decision. Turns out that clipper transports doesn't actually help me reach the technology prerequisites, but it won't hurt anyway. Meanwhile, I carefully plan out my next technologies. The Canal helps with naval movement a LOT (naturally), so I'm planning on getting it soon-ish.


My next technology, the Practical Steam Engine, will help me in a variety of ways. For the Navy, it will help unlike ships, it also has population increase discoveries, it improves my RGOs (despite industrialization, they still provide much of my income), it'll put me closer to Panama Canal techs, and it'll... well, that's it, really. Still, a very useful tech, and one that I have no compunctions about grabbing.


I re-balance my budget, and decide to take a screenshot of the new situation. Negative tariffs, check. Fully funding everything, check. Cutting taxes for rich and (barely) the middle class, check. Looks pretty good to me. By the way, the amount of money that I make from gold is actually MUCH higher than what is shown on the screen.


And I'll end this mammoth update on a funny note. Apparently, the Pope wants social liberty for all, and a new proletariat for the working class. :rofl: More on socialist Pope-man, and more, next time in...

The Southern Eagle: A Mexico AAR!

DG was more specific (over IRC), so I'll give you the shout-out, and him the cookie.

I will be colonizing Africa, and I, of course, need some way of getting there.

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Let's see if that works as a cookie for DG.

DutchGuy said:

Nomnom

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If you so wish, you may copy it into your sig.

Jacobi-99 said:

What about the pacific and Borneo, great rescources and that jazz!

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Their pops are so low in comparison to West Africa/Central Africa.

Tanzhang (譚張) said:

Seems like liberation theology is a 19th century thing in this timeline...

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Clearly we need to *cough* "Liberate" the unfortunate barbarians from their backwards fate.

Red Captain said:

socialist papal states... whats next, if the U.S.A. became the first communist country?

and yay! colonization! its good to take a break from figthing civilized nations and instead go and bully the uncivs

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Indeed.

Buckingham said:

Looking forward to our Mexican Navy!

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Indeed.

Once again, we're looking at the immigrants, and with good reason. As we can see, I am now getting nigh on 7,000 new immigrants a month. Which is nice. I'll explain the cause of the sudden influx in just a bit.


What really matters is that I have a much larger income than the USA. Suck it Blue!


Shockingly, The Ottomans seem to be quite handily beating the Russians for now, although I suspect that the true Russian hosts have not yet descended upon the Turk.


One nice side-effect of the war is that thousands of Immigrants are leaving both Russia and the ottomans monthly, and they're flooding into the new world, where I welcome them with open arms.


Even more are leaving the Ottomans. I believe that most of the sieging and fighting is occurring in Ottoman lands, so while the Russians are gaining ground, they're paying for it dearly in lives. It means that more people flee from Turklandia, but the Russians are by no means winning the war.


As I continue waiting for my CB, Practical Steam Engine finishes. Very helpful tech. Should also help my navy in the long run, and my economy in the short term.


My next pick is the next "Engine" technology, Variable Pressure Steam Engines. Similarly helpful to the last one, and still necessary to get a tech needed for the Canal.


25,000 pounds for free prestige? I'll take it.


Welp, time for death! I call all of my allies, and Brazil is the only one which might not join.


War is declared. Immediately, Satellite California joins the war, as an army marches into Colombia. Another army in Costa Rica waits for them to join the War in defense of the Colombians.


Brazil joins with the Confederates, and my soldiers near Costa Rica march South. I'll be keeping Costa Rica in the war to act as a route of movement into South America. I expect no serious resistance.


A short pictograph of the enemy alliance. Nothing too scary, and I've taken them all on before, plus Brazil, when I was a lot weaker. This should be a cakewalk.


I easily blitz through the Colombian border before they can even assemble an army against me. The first goal of this campaign is to quickly reach the Colombian capital of Bogota.


To thank my good friends in Brazil for joining the war, I increase our opinion down south, bringing them one step closer to our domin... I mean, Friend-with-Benefits status.


Costa Rica doesn't stand a chance, and their capital falls within a couple months of war.


Manizales finishes sieging, and the army marches on to Bogota. Hopefully, I can catch and route the enemy there before quickly taking down the region's fortifications and occupying the capital. Bogota is key to my plans, because as always I am hoping to win the war and peace out as quickly as possible. The enemy capital will speed this along, although it is entirely feasible that I will have to take this war into Peru, the war leader, if I am to succeed.


Costa Rica is completely occupied, and they immediately ask for a white peace. I will reject, freeing the CSA troops to march further south. The ending of conflict here will allow my army to march farther south, where the occupation en-mass of Colombia can begin.


I engage the enemy at Bogota. Clearly, I hold manpower, technology, and probably leadership advantages. The Colombians have a terrainadvantage, but in this situation not even the mountains can help them.


While the mountains prevent the enemy from losing really large amounts of troops, they soon become scattered and disorganized, incapable of offering any real resistance. Only the center of enemy forces remains.


As the Colombian Center falls, the disorganized, undisciplined troops scurry about, trying to retreat, but with no cohesion or organization. All leadership seems dead or missing. Mexican troops swarm over the defenses of Bogota, and soon all Colombian soldiers are either dead, captured, or have melted back into the countryside. Colombia is open for the taking, next time in...

The Southern Eagle: A Mexico AAR!

InvisibleSandwi said:

Costa Rica's continued existence sets off my continuous borders OCD. I don't know when you'll have the infamy to spare to get rid of them, but I hope it's soon.

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I know how you feel, but there are more important things to consider, trust me.

alscon said:

The Russians are not even nearly as successful as the southern eagle. A small war against the Turk is enough to bankrupt them, while Mexico has taken on the USA without!

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Now I don't know that they're bankrupted, or any of that jazz, but they certainly seem to be having troubles.