There are few if any Russian factories on the Baltics; Russia tends to build factories with the very few MPs that it has in ethnic Russian territories. The Germanic lands are a much better bet for capturing factories.
yes but the baltics constitute a border with Prussia.
Attacks on Russia, with its 130-plus provinces, require a vast expenditure of troops and manpower. And the Russian army has a lot more technology than the Chinese! I wasn't sure at this stage of the game I wanted full-scale war with Russia. Fortunately, Russia didn't take Tibet as seriously as it might have since it was "only" a colonial war.
Russia is a PUSHOVER.It's absolutly toast if you invade it's Asian possesions with lots of cavalery.Russia is hughe and most of it's mil strenght constitutes ships and infantry ,just outrun the poor suckers.i know ,you would get the impression russia is hard to beat at that point ,but it wasn't trust me.I done it before and it's rediculously easy. you know those 130 province's is not in their advantage f you have much cavalery.
You are on the right track though and offer valuable suggestions. Thinking this through again, a better course than what I pursued would have been in the initial trade to get a province from Russia bordering Prussia, instead of one isolated in the Caucasus. Then DOW Prussia, and get a war going with the whole German alliance, annex all the small minors, and pick up some factories. After achieving civilized status then go back and annex China.
Thats the thought ,and it aint that hard to take the Baltics border with Prussia from russia ,you only need a few provs in lithuania anyway.Then take Germany and civilize.Get China for uber money and build a hughe native cavalery force ,the rest is history. before 1860 the European powers (except for brittian) are pretty easy to take ,especially with jominian cavalery.
This alternative approach faces serious challenges however. Namely, getting territories with borders with the major European players while still an uncivilized nation with astronomic BB will inevitably lead within a short period to war with France, Italy, Austria, Russia, etc. To be honest things might not have gone well in a European land war against multiple majors at once. And, it's a lot harder to finance massive European wars with the 100L/day from British India than with the 1000L/day from China.
Bordering GP's can be avoided if needed....
My initial plan had been to invade the UK and take south Scotland with its machine parts factory, which would generate an ongoing supply of MPs to allow rapid industrialization. However during the first colonial war with the UK I quickly found that this plan was not viable. Even with "run-away" ship tactics, I lost a few too many transports to the vast and technologically advanced British navy. Plus, even if I had been able to successfully land troops on Britain, it is highly unlikely that the UK would have been willing to part with them in a peace deal even with an excellent war score. The AI will freely divest itself of all of its vast colonial holdings before even contemplating giving up national culture cores. Having a MP factory of course would be huge, but I couldn't seem to find a way to pull it off.
And thats another lesson you learn ,i did point you to the clipper dodgin didn't i? hence the importance of obtaining steel steamers fast after getting civilized.Uk and in a lesser extent USA are youre biggest concerns ,continental europe is fairly easy to take.As for USA ,you can grab land of Mexico or Canada ,or the Indians like you seem to have done.
But with UK youre likely to need a navy to capture it ,and if you wait to long for good navy Brittain will have lots of troops with lots of entrenchment wich you really got to avoid.
Virtually all Tibetan POPS, at least the medium and large ones, were converted to clerks. Some large non-national POPs were converted to capitalists for the income bonus. The POP conversion was expensive and labor-intensive. The only task that occupied more of Bdith's time was putting down all of the rebellions in China. This was a more difficult task than any of the conquests. Research was begun in earnest with full education spending generating approximately 1.5 RPs/month.
The joy of not having to many culture pops.
The biggest and earliest is that all the trading with Russia waiting years to finish building expensive colonial buildings to trade is nonsense. For some reason it escaped me that Tibet's southern neighbor, British India, has the very same techs that Tibet needs. I am finding that British India will easily trade the two vital techs -- post-napoleonic thought and flintlock rifles -- for one border provinces from Punjab, without investing any time into improving relations. British India has cores on Punjab and values these provinces highly, letting you pull off a sweet deal without buffing relations at all.
originaly posted by TheFlemishDuck:
That said ,certain neighbours of yours have some interresting millitary techs... (is no-land trading a rule? )
anyway ,good job still ,you can yet pull of the WC ,and yes such thing's you only learn by experience...
