Good solid progress. That dalience with the Ethiopians looks like another another of those strange "features" that seem to crop in the game from time to time.
More Ottoman slapping eh. I am almost beginning to feel sorry for them :unsure:. I'm assuming your relations haven't recovered with them since the last time you Tangoed or has their military power crashed so far that they have fallen below China?
Regarding the ship image thing I think I read somewhere on the multiplayer thread that the ship images were not updating but the underlying elements were correct (or something along those lines) hopefully someone more knowledgeable than I can comment!
I think you are right that the image doesn't update (all the time), so I decided to go ahead with replacing my losses, hoping that it would be with more modern ships.
As we will see in 1876, I don't think the Ottomans have recovered from being attacked by me and then the Russians, so I suspect they are too weak to appear on the list.
I do, in 1876, find some of the Ethiopian army ready to help me out, the rest is running wild along the Nile refusing to accept Italian rule.
I assume that the Ethiopian shennigans are due to some kind of inter Ethiopian war that you rudely interrupted with your takeover, leaving one of the sides somewhat confused about what to do since their enemy was suddenly replaced
On the colonial side, and besides that big lake most likely named after Gari innumerable victories , all looks good. Kuwait looks a liability, though, in the context of a Ottoman war ( suposing that they have anything worth the name of military, that is ), unless you create a Persian gulf army ( or you already have it ? Not sure ... ). That said, it would be interesting to see Ol'Gari back to Arabia ... maybe even marching from the Euphrates mouth to Istanbul On the Otto war itself, I agree with the timing, since it appears that you and Russia made short work of them and it should not take long for other parties to sense the smell of blood :/
I've got one regular army corps in my colonial region (I use the local fleet to ferry it around) so have something that can probably conquer southern Iraq at best and certainly hold Kuwait at least. In the update after this one, everyone seems to be keen on someone's blood ...
This. Is. Too. Mindboggling.
I'd like to come up with some witty remark, but the simple fact that your game universe allows this comment to even be conceived is causing my brain to short out.
Invading Iraq is always a good idea which never turns out wrong for anyone. Least of all for a Western imperialist power (like, say, Britain in WWI). While you're at it, can you install apuppeterm, friendlier regime to really safeguard Kuwait's safety for eternity? Otherwise you might be forced to defend Kuwait's sovereignty in perpetuity as the dastardly Ottomans keep piling on as soon as you declare another completely justified war on them.
well I have further proof of Swiss inefficiency in the next update ...
I think I can force the Ottomans to disgorge Iraq but I don't really want it, I have too much land already to maintain control if I faced several major revolts at the same time. I'm going after prestige and key locations.
You don't need to worry about the Ottomans . . . Just send in a few drone strikes!
I do have balloons ... do they count?