Second Russian war has finished. Then war with Austria for more of Galicia. I'm finding that the Galician and Slovakian provinces are horrible, very low infrastructure. So I'm working heavily on railing my corridor from Galicia to Ukraine and Rostov. I'm one province away from the connection with China. Most of the rest of Europe is railroaded up. I fought a very long war with Prussa over Westfalen and Slovakia (remnant from the Austro-Prussian war). I managed to destroy their army from 120 divisions down to 10. I took everything but Aarhus, Berlin, part of Brandenburg and Breslau. Next war will be to reduce them to annexable size. France and Spain keep trying to intervene. Now I'll have a 4x war with France. France + Switzerland, France + Spain, France + Italy and France + the United States. I'm hoping to destroy France as a world power and weaken Spain some more. I played through the first war, and started on the 2nd. I wasn't happy with my performance on the second, so back to the drawing board a bit. I want Annecy and their remaining territory in the Alps, quite difficult for me to take with my 100 percent cav army. What I've found works well is to form up a province behind the front and let the French invade me. Then crush them.
Basically, only a few nations can stand up to my shock generals and experience values. The USA does a pretty good job in the Appalachians, normally I bypass them, along the coast, and then from Illinois, east. The USA is still one country (even if you took their share of the population today, it's surprisingly close to 50%. There's a lot of power and a lot of factories in the North and in California and Idaho. They are back up to about 50 or so divisions, so they still haven't been broken yet.
The powers right now are the UK (far and away the number 2), Russia, (weakened, but still has most of their cores), USA, (weakened, but not fatally) Spain (minus Aragon), Austria (basically the Kingdom of Hungary + Croatia + Vienna), the Ottomans (minus all of Libya, Egypt, most of Iraq and parts of Israel) They still own Crete and Cyprus, but their Navy has been weakened but not destroyed. Those are the only nations that can field a substantial army and still possess most of their cores. Prussia was on the table, but because of the devastating war no longer are a threat to me.
At this point I have a few tricky dual power wars over the next while, and after that will come England. Last spot for investment is China and then I will either start researching or doing crime fighting. I make a profit of about 50 pounds per turn with 100% crimefighting, but I can't yet do both and still make a profit.
Basically, only a few nations can stand up to my shock generals and experience values. The USA does a pretty good job in the Appalachians, normally I bypass them, along the coast, and then from Illinois, east. The USA is still one country (even if you took their share of the population today, it's surprisingly close to 50%. There's a lot of power and a lot of factories in the North and in California and Idaho. They are back up to about 50 or so divisions, so they still haven't been broken yet.
The powers right now are the UK (far and away the number 2), Russia, (weakened, but still has most of their cores), USA, (weakened, but not fatally) Spain (minus Aragon), Austria (basically the Kingdom of Hungary + Croatia + Vienna), the Ottomans (minus all of Libya, Egypt, most of Iraq and parts of Israel) They still own Crete and Cyprus, but their Navy has been weakened but not destroyed. Those are the only nations that can field a substantial army and still possess most of their cores. Prussia was on the table, but because of the devastating war no longer are a threat to me.
At this point I have a few tricky dual power wars over the next while, and after that will come England. Last spot for investment is China and then I will either start researching or doing crime fighting. I make a profit of about 50 pounds per turn with 100% crimefighting, but I can't yet do both and still make a profit.