Wu and Ming...sounds like a band and the death of GB. Plus of course the mighty Ashanti now move onto the not so mighty France.
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Yeah, but at least part of the job is pretty enjoyable
Not hunting but preventing their appearance by patrolling each sea zone once every 24 days.
In HttT, just having a fleet nearby prevents pirates from spawning, a big plus.
Thanks for explaining, I guess you sensed, I'd once again take an eternity to post this update
At least the numbers involved should be.this will be the last epic war
And from the looks of it, I don't even have to try a two point conversion.
I hope you like it, getting it right took a bit longer than I expected.Heh, I don't remember seeing that many soldiers before... Although I do realize why they're of use here.
Despite the Hesse situation you managed to open several fronts on the French. That should be helpful.
Yay for Ashanti America!
I guess that, at least now, it is safe to say that the Russians are done.
Looking forward to Chapter 60, epic war and "goodie" (whatever that is
That would require marching troops from all over the place to France. Way too much workThat's even better.
What of moving one million soldiers on to the borders of France?
Also, there's two limits on the amount of troops I can bring to bear:
1. The average lifetime of generals and the rate at which I acquire tradition limits me to ~15 generals, so I can't effectively use much more than this many armies.
2. Since WE from attrition doesn't scale with army size, sending 1 million troops would mean gaining about 1.5 WE each month. That's 6 months of peace for every month at war.
Because of the extended coverage of the Ashanti-French war, the Russians will have to wait until next chapter.
I'm starting to regret liberating Wu. Yes, it makes taking over China a bit faster, but they've really wreaked havoc on my Asian monopolies.
Chapter 60: The two thirds of a Million Spaceman March
Aug 1720: To open the Italian border, we declare war on Corsica, which is guaranteed by the two remaining Italian countries.
Sep 1720: We take the far Genoese province and park an army there for the coming war. Also, Poland is reduced to their final province.
Oct 1720: A month later, the Pope is locked into Brescia and we annex Corsica, leading to the election of Johann VI of Münster to the Throne of the HRE.
Nov 1720: More foreplay, this time we attack Norway, Scandinavia and Hungary.
Dec 1720: Remembering that we've got no diplomats, we accept a Norwegian peace offer of 909 ducats.
Feb/Mar 1721: Scandinavia is OPM'd and Hungary loses another four provinces.
Jul 1721: This is the setup to the war. 682'000 soldiers are ready to march into France, many of the armies 44 regiments strong. And while the French have many armies that will compare favourably to ours, no army of theirs will be able to assault our fortresses. And so we declare war on France and Normandy which had warned us a bit earlier. They field a combined 222,000 men.
So much for the French not being able to to assault our forts. The three French armies in the Low Countries are converging on Brabant. That's a 110,000 men tied up.
On the Channel coast our army was able to avoid the French cavalry army, which is now busy camping in the Caux countryside. In the background you might just see the last real naval battle on this planet. Ultimately all 36 French ships will be sunk with no losses.
Aug 1721: We've racked up 0.88 war exhaustion from attrition in the first month alone, and our armies in Nice, Lombardia and Roussilion have also been locked in battles.
This is a nice effect of the differing troop types. Our superior general and terrain allows us to keep casualties almost even. But since generals don't influence morale loss, while about 50,000 of our troops have run out of morale, most of the original French troops are still standing in the frontline, badly battered and incapable of inflicting many further casualties.
Paris falls after a four day assault.
This is the situation one month after declaring war. We've fought two complete battles and three more are still ongoing. In all three the French have slowly run out of men in the front troops.
Sep 1721: Another month later, we've run out of troops to run out of morale. Still, this army won't assault the fort anytime soon. In the end they'll have lost almost 38,000 troops while we lose 31,000.
Oct 1721: Normandy parts with another province.
2 months and 22 days after the war started, we've got enough warscore for what we aimed for...
... which is to slice apart France.
And this is the war in motion. Red dots are battles we won, yellow are French victories.
Eight days after the peace agreement, electoral reality takes a hold of the country again and Yanza Sadami loses in a tight race against Dimani Offei.
Sep 1722: Now that we probably don't need spies to infiltrate administrations anymore, we can use them to incite nationalist rebels in isolated pockets.
Coming Up: The big cleanup, part 1 of x
Aug 1720: To open the Italian border, we declare war on Corsica, which is guaranteed by the two remaining Italian countries.
Sep 1720: We take the far Genoese province and park an army there for the coming war. Also, Poland is reduced to their final province.
Oct 1720: A month later, the Pope is locked into Brescia and we annex Corsica, leading to the election of Johann VI of Münster to the Throne of the HRE.
Nov 1720: More foreplay, this time we attack Norway, Scandinavia and Hungary.
Dec 1720: Remembering that we've got no diplomats, we accept a Norwegian peace offer of 909 ducats.
Feb/Mar 1721: Scandinavia is OPM'd and Hungary loses another four provinces.
Jul 1721: This is the setup to the war. 682'000 soldiers are ready to march into France, many of the armies 44 regiments strong. And while the French have many armies that will compare favourably to ours, no army of theirs will be able to assault our fortresses. And so we declare war on France and Normandy which had warned us a bit earlier. They field a combined 222,000 men.
So much for the French not being able to to assault our forts. The three French armies in the Low Countries are converging on Brabant. That's a 110,000 men tied up.
On the Channel coast our army was able to avoid the French cavalry army, which is now busy camping in the Caux countryside. In the background you might just see the last real naval battle on this planet. Ultimately all 36 French ships will be sunk with no losses.
Aug 1721: We've racked up 0.88 war exhaustion from attrition in the first month alone, and our armies in Nice, Lombardia and Roussilion have also been locked in battles.
This is a nice effect of the differing troop types. Our superior general and terrain allows us to keep casualties almost even. But since generals don't influence morale loss, while about 50,000 of our troops have run out of morale, most of the original French troops are still standing in the frontline, badly battered and incapable of inflicting many further casualties.
Paris falls after a four day assault.
This is the situation one month after declaring war. We've fought two complete battles and three more are still ongoing. In all three the French have slowly run out of men in the front troops.
Sep 1721: Another month later, we've run out of troops to run out of morale. Still, this army won't assault the fort anytime soon. In the end they'll have lost almost 38,000 troops while we lose 31,000.
Oct 1721: Normandy parts with another province.
2 months and 22 days after the war started, we've got enough warscore for what we aimed for...
... which is to slice apart France.
And this is the war in motion. Red dots are battles we won, yellow are French victories.
Eight days after the peace agreement, electoral reality takes a hold of the country again and Yanza Sadami loses in a tight race against Dimani Offei.
Sep 1722: Now that we probably don't need spies to infiltrate administrations anymore, we can use them to incite nationalist rebels in isolated pockets.
Coming Up: The big cleanup, part 1 of x
If the Foixians go to Armagnac, you will need one more war!
But fantastic work there. You might make what PrawnStar didn't.
Lets all go tell him that!
But fantastic work there. You might make what PrawnStar didn't.
Lets all go tell him that!
Well done.
I wonder how they really could have won Napoleon who controlled a France larger than that in 1814-15...
Probably has something to do with large WE, low manpower, and attackers being simply too many.
I wonder how they really could have won Napoleon who controlled a France larger than that in 1814-15...
Probably has something to do with large WE, low manpower, and attackers being simply too many.
Very well done. That sure seems like a decisive war - as it's France, she will continue to have troops, but the slicing should make future wars easier to manage.
Nice to see that your advantage in generals allowed you to inflict such high casualties on the French.
Nice to see that your advantage in generals allowed you to inflict such high casualties on the French.
Excellent work, I'm sure you've more than enough time and diplomats to complete the WC
Thanks
Thanks
Don't worry. You'll always have a special place in our hearts.
Agreed
To PrawnStar: Did i detect sarcasm?
As you'll see, the Foixians have indeed gone to Armagnac, and I did need another war. Though I'm not sure it happened the way you meant
... and only one side having a planWell done.
I wonder how they really could have won Napoleon who controlled a France larger than that in 1814-15...
Probably has something to do with large WE, low manpower, and attackers being simply too many.
Yes, I was surprised I could take enough provinces to cut France in three.
Yes, I think 96 provinces in 95 years should be possibleExcellent work, I'm sure you've more than enough time and diplomats to complete the WC
Indeed, he's the inspiration for many pagan fool's errands :rofl:Don't worry. You'll always have a special place in our hearts.
They still can get on my nervesnationalists won't join another nation with another name
Chapter 61: Postbellum boredom
Mar 1723: We start the big clean-up with Russia, Hesse and Aragon which is quickly annexed.
This time we want to win the Battle for St. Petersburg to get rid of the big Russian force in our back.
Apr 1723: One and a half months into the war, most of our armies are close to their second assault. And another week later, we win the Battle of St. Petersburg, after bringing 4 armies to bear.
Jun 1723: Ultimately we create another pocket in French space. And since we couldn't find a good combination of Russian provinces with St. Petersburg, we focussed on encroaching on the big patch of Russian territory in the North.
Aug 1723: As usual, Rebels rarely fail to bite you in your rear end...
Nov 1723: Time for another war in China to finally get rid of the Wu traders and Manchu. The rebels in the Southwest are just peasants and so there's no hope of Ming falling apart further.
Jan/Feb 1724: Manchu and Wu are annexed and Ming is cut a bit more. With our newest conquests, we've passed the 1 million manpower mark.
Mar 1724: We decide that we've hurt Ming enough and vow to never attack them again. (Translation: Ming has transformed into Manchu) Also, someone says that Reputation isn't everything. No kidding.
May 1724: We've finished the colonization of the Pacific islands and Castille declares war. But since Armagnac's still under siege by friendly Rebels, there's nothing we can do about besides sitting there and dying from attrition. After a few months of waiting for the siege to progress with our support, we peace out for two renounced claims and a few ducats.
And since someone was asking where all our soldiers are bred. The Jiangsu CoT is worth 4483.05 ducats.
Jul 1725: The French seem to think that there's not enough Mediterranean CoTs and so they open a new one in Provence.
Oct 1725: Has it been 4 years already? We keep Dimani Offei, who's had a pretty quiet term. To celebrate his reelection, he releases our final vassal Bihar. Two days later, we're warned by them.
Dec 1725: We declare war on Norway, Scandinavia, Genoa, the Papal State, Friesland and Bihar. Sounds big, but with all 6 reduced to OPM's, this should be easy.
Of course, forgetting to assign a general to a stack still leads to disaster.
Jan 1726: We annex Friesland, Genoa and Scandinavia. Bihar gets to buy its freedom for another 5 years with 2500 ducats...
Feb 1726: ... while Norway buys another few months with a valiant garrison. But ultimately both they and the Papal State are annexed by July. And somewhere in the last few months, Castille collapsed to the Rebels and is now attackable again.
And those are the remaining countries:
Coming Up: France again
Mar 1723: We start the big clean-up with Russia, Hesse and Aragon which is quickly annexed.
This time we want to win the Battle for St. Petersburg to get rid of the big Russian force in our back.
Apr 1723: One and a half months into the war, most of our armies are close to their second assault. And another week later, we win the Battle of St. Petersburg, after bringing 4 armies to bear.
Jun 1723: Ultimately we create another pocket in French space. And since we couldn't find a good combination of Russian provinces with St. Petersburg, we focussed on encroaching on the big patch of Russian territory in the North.
Aug 1723: As usual, Rebels rarely fail to bite you in your rear end...
Nov 1723: Time for another war in China to finally get rid of the Wu traders and Manchu. The rebels in the Southwest are just peasants and so there's no hope of Ming falling apart further.
Jan/Feb 1724: Manchu and Wu are annexed and Ming is cut a bit more. With our newest conquests, we've passed the 1 million manpower mark.
Mar 1724: We decide that we've hurt Ming enough and vow to never attack them again. (Translation: Ming has transformed into Manchu) Also, someone says that Reputation isn't everything. No kidding.
May 1724: We've finished the colonization of the Pacific islands and Castille declares war. But since Armagnac's still under siege by friendly Rebels, there's nothing we can do about besides sitting there and dying from attrition. After a few months of waiting for the siege to progress with our support, we peace out for two renounced claims and a few ducats.
And since someone was asking where all our soldiers are bred. The Jiangsu CoT is worth 4483.05 ducats.
Jul 1725: The French seem to think that there's not enough Mediterranean CoTs and so they open a new one in Provence.
Oct 1725: Has it been 4 years already? We keep Dimani Offei, who's had a pretty quiet term. To celebrate his reelection, he releases our final vassal Bihar. Two days later, we're warned by them.
Dec 1725: We declare war on Norway, Scandinavia, Genoa, the Papal State, Friesland and Bihar. Sounds big, but with all 6 reduced to OPM's, this should be easy.
Of course, forgetting to assign a general to a stack still leads to disaster.
Jan 1726: We annex Friesland, Genoa and Scandinavia. Bihar gets to buy its freedom for another 5 years with 2500 ducats...
Feb 1726: ... while Norway buys another few months with a valiant garrison. But ultimately both they and the Papal State are annexed by July. And somewhere in the last few months, Castille collapsed to the Rebels and is now attackable again.
And those are the remaining countries:
Code:
Ashanti 1177
France 42
Russia 20
Manchu 10
Hungary 10
Würzburg 4
Hesse 2
Saxony 1
Austria 1
Normandy 1
Munster 1
Bihar 1
Poland 1
Castille 1
Meissen 1Coming Up: France again
Would be nice indeed.OPM Scandinavia had a army of 30k?
Imagine the tech-speed of a OPM with Jiangsu.
Of course, Jiangsu's income only really exploded once we annexed it and about 2500 ducats worth of trade, that was going though Malacca before, was redirected to Jiangsu.
Alive and being kicked
Chapter 62: The long mop-up
Oct 1726: We declare war on Normandy again. This time 36 armies of 22,000 men each are ready to fight. Of course we don't have enough generals to command more than half of them, so they are assigned to the armies with the shortest way to enemy provinces, so that they are hopefully done with the assault before the slower armies reach enemy territory.
Here you see an army running for its life. Thankfully, the French attached 3000 brakes to their doomstack and so we can avoid them.
Unfortunately not even a level 5 fort could resist their assault, and so Caux is lost.
This is how the rest of the war progresses. All the red dots might lead to the belief that we're easily winning battles, but that's only because in most cases we choose if we want to fight or not.
Dec 1726: Normandy is annexed, we take back Caux and force the release of 8 province Burgundy.
Jun/Aug 1727: Crimea declares independence from Hungary, and Foix splits off France.
Aug 1727: Let's see if annexing Manchu is quicker than it was with Ming.
Sep 1727: It's quicker alright. If the final Manchu province doesn't cost more than 34 warscore, this might be over in two more wars.
And since the last war was over so quickly, it's time to welcome Foix, Crimea and Burgundy into the world community.
Nov 1727: The Hungarians have put up a valiant defense of their capital, but in the end there can be no other outcome against our countless troops.
Dec 1727: If Albania breaks away in time, Hungary might also be gone after two more wars. And we've run out of diplomats once more.
Jan/Mar/May 1728: We annex Foix and Crimea, while Burgundy finally gives us a northern land bridge.
Jul 1728: The Russian truce has expired and so we declare war on them once again. Their ally Hesse is quickly OPM'd
Oct 1728: According to the Battle screen, we lost this battle. But we like the numbers nevertheless.
Dec 1728: Russia will take quite a few more wars. Fortunately, we can sponsor Ukrainian Nationalists in the Kiev-Poltava pocket, which would save us at least 82 warscore.
This looks like another perfect opportunity for a Rebel army.
Apr 1729: Russia has gone bankrupt. And we annex Saxony and OPM Wurttemberg.
Oct 1729: That could be called the electoral kind of "rubbing it in"
Feb 1730: Serbia declares independence from Hungary. Two months later, they insult us, because relations obviously weren't deteriorating quickly enough.
Jun 1730: We've come up with an even quicker way to worsen relations. And two weeks later, we end relations.
Coming Up: The end of the HRE
Oct 1726: We declare war on Normandy again. This time 36 armies of 22,000 men each are ready to fight. Of course we don't have enough generals to command more than half of them, so they are assigned to the armies with the shortest way to enemy provinces, so that they are hopefully done with the assault before the slower armies reach enemy territory.
Here you see an army running for its life. Thankfully, the French attached 3000 brakes to their doomstack and so we can avoid them.
Unfortunately not even a level 5 fort could resist their assault, and so Caux is lost.
This is how the rest of the war progresses. All the red dots might lead to the belief that we're easily winning battles, but that's only because in most cases we choose if we want to fight or not.
Dec 1726: Normandy is annexed, we take back Caux and force the release of 8 province Burgundy.
Jun/Aug 1727: Crimea declares independence from Hungary, and Foix splits off France.
Aug 1727: Let's see if annexing Manchu is quicker than it was with Ming.
Sep 1727: It's quicker alright. If the final Manchu province doesn't cost more than 34 warscore, this might be over in two more wars.
And since the last war was over so quickly, it's time to welcome Foix, Crimea and Burgundy into the world community.
Nov 1727: The Hungarians have put up a valiant defense of their capital, but in the end there can be no other outcome against our countless troops.
Dec 1727: If Albania breaks away in time, Hungary might also be gone after two more wars. And we've run out of diplomats once more.
Jan/Mar/May 1728: We annex Foix and Crimea, while Burgundy finally gives us a northern land bridge.
Jul 1728: The Russian truce has expired and so we declare war on them once again. Their ally Hesse is quickly OPM'd
Oct 1728: According to the Battle screen, we lost this battle. But we like the numbers nevertheless.
Dec 1728: Russia will take quite a few more wars. Fortunately, we can sponsor Ukrainian Nationalists in the Kiev-Poltava pocket, which would save us at least 82 warscore.
This looks like another perfect opportunity for a Rebel army.
Apr 1729: Russia has gone bankrupt. And we annex Saxony and OPM Wurttemberg.
Oct 1729: That could be called the electoral kind of "rubbing it in"
Feb 1730: Serbia declares independence from Hungary. Two months later, they insult us, because relations obviously weren't deteriorating quickly enough.
Jun 1730: We've come up with an even quicker way to worsen relations. And two weeks later, we end relations.
Coming Up: The end of the HRE
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Very solid work in all the wars. Too bad about Caux, but you got such a huge peace that it didn't make a big difference. Russia should indeed be breakable somewhat. Overall, this WC shouldn't take too long to finish anymore.
Well put :rofl:
You seem to be showing the wrong screenshot here (the Hungary peace for the second time).
Well put :rofl:
You seem to be showing the wrong screenshot here (the Hungary peace for the second time).
If I can get my lazy behind to actually do the mop up work, yesVery solid work in all the wars. Too bad about Caux, but you got such a huge peace that it didn't make a big difference. Russia should indeed be breakable somewhat. Overall, this WC shouldn't take too long to finish anymore.
And thanks for pointing out the screenshot mixup
Edit: The animation wasn't set to repeat either
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If I can get my lazy behind to actually do the mop up work, yes
Yeah, that can be a tedious part...