My First AAR. Although I used to write out full game AAR's while playing wargames such as Guadalcanal Campaign, Bomb Alley and other Gary Grigsby Designs....
IGC 2.3 Very hard/Furious Normal Taxes, Standard SPA Lowlands, Free Bretagne, Super Hansa, T.O Ingermandland, COT in Anglia & Moscow, Burgundy the Mighty & Balkanization
Austria, the sick man of europe, is to attempt to rise to greatness...
Objectives of the Nation: 1492-1600+
1- Assimilate Hungary
2- Assimilate Bohemia
3- Conquer Venice and absorb their lands (and especially PORT) in our lands.
4- Become a Colonial Power, and "lose" the Hapsburg fixation of "europecentrism"
5- Ally with but attempt to "control" Spanish and French Domination of the Colonial &
european world.
6- Become the 1st Empire to go protestant and/or reformed.
7- Be a Bulwark against the heathen Turcs, the barbaric russians and the civilized but aggressive Poles.
Variation:
a) Colonist.csv modified to allow 1/colonist, sometime 2/year.
b) Will get an explorer "family" from 1505 or so to 1650's
c) Will get an conquistador "family" from 1505 or so to 1650's...
This means that 1 leader will last for a long time, but his/her name will change every 20-30 years or so unless killed by natives and other hazards.
No Tech levels modified.
Colonist starts at 4...
They will NOT increase since we have no PORT yet....
Displomats = normal
merchants = notmal
Possibility of starting with 1000 Gold at start instead of 100 (get's game going faster..... have to stop Spain)
File available upon request.
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Intro - Pre-1492.:
Our family having been expelled from Spain, we vow revenge upon the spaniards in the future. After leaving for Portugal , we find scant welcome and must leave there as well, a short time later. They will
face our wrath as well..
Since we would never work for the heathen muslims and especially turcs, we hear that the Austrian Hapsburgs have need for a royal councillor.... Since another branch of our family has "loaned" fortunes to Maximilian we receive an audience.
Over fine wine, myself and the King hit it off famously and I have the position of Royal Councilor, Junior level
<g>. After the family and the baby get settled in, I start looking over the tactical & strategic situation.
See Objectives above.
One point I am trying to convince the royal court of is that Christianity must be reformed to better combat the turcs and their heathen religion. We see ourselves as the civilizing influence in this region, and the pope's antics in rome (mistresses, children, monies etc) is not helping our and Christendom's cause.
We will try to "influence" the College of Cardinals but if no progress is made, we will just have to see... The Italian City states will be "sounded" out for help in this enterprise, but as they are almost corrupt in their respective outlooks, we do not hold out much hope.
1492
An Alliance with Hungary is concluded, and we are now 3 countries in our little corner of europe.... Austria, Bohemia (5 provs) & Hungary (8 Provs). We have 12 Provinces (I Think), 2x Armies
We hear from our spies in the Royal Court of Spain that a New route to the Indies has been found, and that a Christopher Columbus individual has found it ! He talks to tales of dusky women, sugar & spices, of places fabulous where beverages could be created from the soil.... (Rhum !)
We will attempt to spy on their "discoveries" over time, and hope to get "lucky" (i.e. steal their Rutters)
Maybe we will engage the services of one of our own "explorers", but without an outlet to the Med, it will not happen.... Which bring us to the following....
1- Displomatic Objective is DIPLOMATIC Annexation of both Bohemia/Hungary in the next 40 or so years, before we REFORM our churches (i.e. Our Catholic state changes to protestant or reformed).
2- Diplomatic Objective 2 is creating a buffer zone between us & Turkey, so possibly invite Serbia in our alliance(s).
Our analysis shows that Venice must be our military objective at this time, to get a PORT facility on the Mediterranean, and race Spain in the new world.
Mantua & Illyria are to be our sprinboard to the Med, crippling Venice's ability to expand West and capturing Illyria ( a CB Shield state) before the turcs can threaten it...
Our 2x Armies are on the move, with 1 army to attack from Tyrol (to threaten Mantua) and Styria (to threaten Venice itself and disrupt Army Mobilizations i.e. low morale slaughters....).
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That's my Intro...
Any ideas from the real veterans here, is this going to be fun or am I starting too strong to be interesting ?
Thx & Let me know
Jean
P.S. When is EU II slated for English/North America release ? Anyone know the latest news ?
IGC 2.3 Very hard/Furious Normal Taxes, Standard SPA Lowlands, Free Bretagne, Super Hansa, T.O Ingermandland, COT in Anglia & Moscow, Burgundy the Mighty & Balkanization
Austria, the sick man of europe, is to attempt to rise to greatness...
Objectives of the Nation: 1492-1600+
1- Assimilate Hungary
2- Assimilate Bohemia
3- Conquer Venice and absorb their lands (and especially PORT) in our lands.
4- Become a Colonial Power, and "lose" the Hapsburg fixation of "europecentrism"
5- Ally with but attempt to "control" Spanish and French Domination of the Colonial &
european world.
6- Become the 1st Empire to go protestant and/or reformed.
7- Be a Bulwark against the heathen Turcs, the barbaric russians and the civilized but aggressive Poles.
Variation:
a) Colonist.csv modified to allow 1/colonist, sometime 2/year.
b) Will get an explorer "family" from 1505 or so to 1650's
c) Will get an conquistador "family" from 1505 or so to 1650's...
This means that 1 leader will last for a long time, but his/her name will change every 20-30 years or so unless killed by natives and other hazards.
No Tech levels modified.
Colonist starts at 4...
They will NOT increase since we have no PORT yet....
Displomats = normal
merchants = notmal
Possibility of starting with 1000 Gold at start instead of 100 (get's game going faster..... have to stop Spain)
File available upon request.
===========
Intro - Pre-1492.:
Our family having been expelled from Spain, we vow revenge upon the spaniards in the future. After leaving for Portugal , we find scant welcome and must leave there as well, a short time later. They will
face our wrath as well..
Since we would never work for the heathen muslims and especially turcs, we hear that the Austrian Hapsburgs have need for a royal councillor.... Since another branch of our family has "loaned" fortunes to Maximilian we receive an audience.
Over fine wine, myself and the King hit it off famously and I have the position of Royal Councilor, Junior level
<g>. After the family and the baby get settled in, I start looking over the tactical & strategic situation.
See Objectives above.
One point I am trying to convince the royal court of is that Christianity must be reformed to better combat the turcs and their heathen religion. We see ourselves as the civilizing influence in this region, and the pope's antics in rome (mistresses, children, monies etc) is not helping our and Christendom's cause.
We will try to "influence" the College of Cardinals but if no progress is made, we will just have to see... The Italian City states will be "sounded" out for help in this enterprise, but as they are almost corrupt in their respective outlooks, we do not hold out much hope.
1492
An Alliance with Hungary is concluded, and we are now 3 countries in our little corner of europe.... Austria, Bohemia (5 provs) & Hungary (8 Provs). We have 12 Provinces (I Think), 2x Armies
We hear from our spies in the Royal Court of Spain that a New route to the Indies has been found, and that a Christopher Columbus individual has found it ! He talks to tales of dusky women, sugar & spices, of places fabulous where beverages could be created from the soil.... (Rhum !)
We will attempt to spy on their "discoveries" over time, and hope to get "lucky" (i.e. steal their Rutters)
Maybe we will engage the services of one of our own "explorers", but without an outlet to the Med, it will not happen.... Which bring us to the following....
1- Displomatic Objective is DIPLOMATIC Annexation of both Bohemia/Hungary in the next 40 or so years, before we REFORM our churches (i.e. Our Catholic state changes to protestant or reformed).
2- Diplomatic Objective 2 is creating a buffer zone between us & Turkey, so possibly invite Serbia in our alliance(s).
Our analysis shows that Venice must be our military objective at this time, to get a PORT facility on the Mediterranean, and race Spain in the new world.
Mantua & Illyria are to be our sprinboard to the Med, crippling Venice's ability to expand West and capturing Illyria ( a CB Shield state) before the turcs can threaten it...
Our 2x Armies are on the move, with 1 army to attack from Tyrol (to threaten Mantua) and Styria (to threaten Venice itself and disrupt Army Mobilizations i.e. low morale slaughters....).
====
That's my Intro...
Any ideas from the real veterans here, is this going to be fun or am I starting too strong to be interesting ?
Thx & Let me know
Jean
P.S. When is EU II slated for English/North America release ? Anyone know the latest news ?
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