1581-1590 The vendetta against England
More war V hordes. More colonizing. More meh.
I saw a small British fleet sail past my territory in India. Not sure why, but it just annoyed me. They were still alive, and that alone was cause to kill them.
I looked around and saw they were at war with a couple countries in the East Indies.
W. T. F.
I decided that right then, I was going to take them out. I wasn't sure how, but I was going to do it.
I moused over and declared war. DIE!
I sent out my ships in the Indian region to engage the small British fleet. There was a pitched battle between his 4 warships and my 3 warships and 10 cogs. Eventually, I scored victory!
I tried to attack a second British convoy. This time, a large fleet showed up and crushed my navy!
Hmm. I did the math. With so many ships way over yonder, what was defending the British Isles?
I loaded my main fleet with one assault stack and sent it out on a posible one way trip to Ireland. When I got there, I saw about 35k British troops in Ireland. Crap!
I diverted my attack to the British main Isle and my assault stack found no enemy near and level one forts all over the place.
I saw no defenders and no navy!
My navy rushed back for a second 10k stack while my assault stack went crazy. In just a few months, I'd captured most of the British Home Island!!
Finally, an enemy fleet showed up. It was small enough for me to engage and score a victory, large enough for the loss to be significant for the Brits.
With that fleet reparing in port, two more fleets of transports were sunk by my navy. He had substantial forces just across the water in Ireland, but couldn't bring any of them home.
His fleet came back out with a few reinforcements and again they were beaten back, costing him 3 more transports in the process. He was now down to maybe a dozen!
Another group of 4 cogs was sunk. I knew strategically, there was no way he could bring enough troops home to be any threat to my 25k forces present there.
Finally after a LONG time, the rest of his large ships showed up, forcing my fleet into port. By this time, I'd captured all of the British Home Island, and it was just a matter of time.
I kept trying to send a stack to the Orkneys, but one of his two fleets kept blocking my passage while the smaller of the two British fleets kept me blockaded in. I devided my naval force into 3 parts, made up of a big ship fleet, and 2 groups of cogs. I took a gamble using my cogs as cannon fodder for my large ships, and sent them all into the smaller British fleet letting the cogs arrive 1 day before the large ships.
At first, the cogs took a heavy pounding, but then my large ships destroyed his large ships fast enough to prevent any of my cogs from sinking. The naval power balance swung heavily towards OE with that victory.
The fight was over extremely fast, before his second fleet could return to aid or get revenge. I put my fleet to dock quickly, giving them several months to repair. My tactic had been a stunning success! In similar fights durring the last war, my navy had lost, but now I had a 1 level tech lead in Naval and by letting my transports take the brunt of his attack, my fighting ships stayed strong throughout the fight.
The British economy was a wreck. Their WE shot up to Max in just a few months. In the war screen, their score dropped straight to zero.
With my fleet largely repaired, I decided to attempt the tactic a second time on the other large British naval force. Again, the result was a devistating victory.
The British were now down to 3 cogs! I loaded my armies up and sent them to Ireland, crushing the British completely and occupying the entirity of the British Isles.
then this!!!
I was in a regency since right after I started the war V GB. It would have to wait, but I now had a party date with Vijayanager!
I squeezed GB until their economy collapsed and they fell into bankruptcy. -Then- I sued for peace.
My new King came to power with all his 3-5-3 greatnes, and had an almost equally bad heir! I had had enough overextension. I changed government to Admin republic, picked an Admin ruler and got a 9-3-8! F yea! The bad diplomacy thing would need to go, but he could wait until after stability was back up first.
Then I declared war on Vijayanager and their ally Deccan.
Deccan was annexed and Vijayanager cut in half.
I then attacked Yemen using my mision CB to grab Mecca.
With a high RR and infamy, I spent the rest of the decade building up my economy, killing rebels, and insulting the other leaders of the world while stability recovered.
More war V hordes. More colonizing. More meh.
I saw a small British fleet sail past my territory in India. Not sure why, but it just annoyed me. They were still alive, and that alone was cause to kill them.
I looked around and saw they were at war with a couple countries in the East Indies.
W. T. F.
I decided that right then, I was going to take them out. I wasn't sure how, but I was going to do it.
I moused over and declared war. DIE!
I sent out my ships in the Indian region to engage the small British fleet. There was a pitched battle between his 4 warships and my 3 warships and 10 cogs. Eventually, I scored victory!
I tried to attack a second British convoy. This time, a large fleet showed up and crushed my navy!
Hmm. I did the math. With so many ships way over yonder, what was defending the British Isles?
I loaded my main fleet with one assault stack and sent it out on a posible one way trip to Ireland. When I got there, I saw about 35k British troops in Ireland. Crap!
I diverted my attack to the British main Isle and my assault stack found no enemy near and level one forts all over the place.
I saw no defenders and no navy!
My navy rushed back for a second 10k stack while my assault stack went crazy. In just a few months, I'd captured most of the British Home Island!!
Finally, an enemy fleet showed up. It was small enough for me to engage and score a victory, large enough for the loss to be significant for the Brits.
With that fleet reparing in port, two more fleets of transports were sunk by my navy. He had substantial forces just across the water in Ireland, but couldn't bring any of them home.
His fleet came back out with a few reinforcements and again they were beaten back, costing him 3 more transports in the process. He was now down to maybe a dozen!
Another group of 4 cogs was sunk. I knew strategically, there was no way he could bring enough troops home to be any threat to my 25k forces present there.
Finally after a LONG time, the rest of his large ships showed up, forcing my fleet into port. By this time, I'd captured all of the British Home Island, and it was just a matter of time.
I kept trying to send a stack to the Orkneys, but one of his two fleets kept blocking my passage while the smaller of the two British fleets kept me blockaded in. I devided my naval force into 3 parts, made up of a big ship fleet, and 2 groups of cogs. I took a gamble using my cogs as cannon fodder for my large ships, and sent them all into the smaller British fleet letting the cogs arrive 1 day before the large ships.
At first, the cogs took a heavy pounding, but then my large ships destroyed his large ships fast enough to prevent any of my cogs from sinking. The naval power balance swung heavily towards OE with that victory.
The fight was over extremely fast, before his second fleet could return to aid or get revenge. I put my fleet to dock quickly, giving them several months to repair. My tactic had been a stunning success! In similar fights durring the last war, my navy had lost, but now I had a 1 level tech lead in Naval and by letting my transports take the brunt of his attack, my fighting ships stayed strong throughout the fight.
The British economy was a wreck. Their WE shot up to Max in just a few months. In the war screen, their score dropped straight to zero.
With my fleet largely repaired, I decided to attempt the tactic a second time on the other large British naval force. Again, the result was a devistating victory.
The British were now down to 3 cogs! I loaded my armies up and sent them to Ireland, crushing the British completely and occupying the entirity of the British Isles.
then this!!!
I was in a regency since right after I started the war V GB. It would have to wait, but I now had a party date with Vijayanager!
I squeezed GB until their economy collapsed and they fell into bankruptcy. -Then- I sued for peace.
My new King came to power with all his 3-5-3 greatnes, and had an almost equally bad heir! I had had enough overextension. I changed government to Admin republic, picked an Admin ruler and got a 9-3-8! F yea! The bad diplomacy thing would need to go, but he could wait until after stability was back up first.
Then I declared war on Vijayanager and their ally Deccan.
Deccan was annexed and Vijayanager cut in half.
I then attacked Yemen using my mision CB to grab Mecca.
With a high RR and infamy, I spent the rest of the decade building up my economy, killing rebels, and insulting the other leaders of the world while stability recovered.
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Just not in a way that gave me more BB.
