Hi guys,
I was reading this forum for a long time, learning a lot from your AARs about the game itself. Now, after finally upgrading my comp, I can finally play myself, so I think it is only fair if I provide you with some sort of AAR about my first game. Unfortunately the idea of doing AAR came up when I was well in the game (actually it was when I annected Sibir and I thought some of you may be interested how this happened LOL) so first 60 years wont be detailed, but I try to give you generall impresssion what was going on.
I play IGC, my goal is to bring Holy Land back to Christian possesion.
1492 - 1558 YEARS OF EXPANSION AND BUILDING
Poland is a catholic kingdom and as such we cannot bear the fact the Holy Land is not under Christian control. We will fight to get it back, but for this we need our country to be the strongest nation in the world. So the plan is simple - expand in easy way first and do the hard job later on.
We start with huge land, big army and weak economy. Maintaining such a big army costs too much, so we want to decrease their size. We think the best way to achieve it is to send them to fight. So our first decissions are to ally with Moldavia (I have polish version of the game, so some names may differ from english versions) and DOW Zakon Krzyzacki (Teutonic Order). Both our and theirs allies (Prusy or Prussia in you version) join the fun. Prusy is our vassal so cowards must be punished. We annected Prusy first and take Kurland (COT) from Teutons in peace treaty.
Next on the list is Rosja (Russia). We wait couple of years, time of peace being used to upgrade our economy (promoting taxmen and judges) and our defense (upgrading fortifications).
Meantime Rosja annected Kazan.
Next three decades were filled with wars against Rosja and her allies (Pskov and Danes, latter always joined the war but never send any troops). Around 1530 Rosja is down to four provinces (Moscow,Tula, Far Karelia and Kola), Pskov and Ryazan have been added to our realm as well.
Last war was very interesting, to say at least. Half of Europe DOWed us and some asian countries as well. Poland with her faithfull ally (vassal later on) Moldavia stood against coalition of few coalitions : Rosja, Szwecja (Sweden), Dania(Danmark), Holsztyn, Pomorze, Hansa, Brandenburgia, TO, Czechy, Saksonia, Turcja, Persja (btw Persja is Turkeys ally), Golden Hordes and some minors I cant remember now. We concentrated on bribing leaders from coalitions we werent interested in fighting, and fought countries we wanted lands from. So we bribed Brandenburgers giving them province of Western Prussia, Turkey received Besarabia and these were the only provinces we had to give up. Others took money in peace negotiations. At the end we were fighting Czechs and their ally Saxony and Golden Horde ( Rosja already ceded some land to us). War ended with annexation of Golden Horde and we also took Silesia from Czechs. IIRC this series of wars lasted some 10 years. We recovered for few years, laying low just not to piss off anybody again and suddenly Astrachan together with Sibir DOWed us. We added both to our realm, which opened the way to the east. We changed religion to counterreformed, thus giving us finally one settler a year.
Now we are in the year 1558 and wondering what to do next.
OT two things I need some help about
First : is there any point of building breweries in provinces without sugar or wine ?
Second : with limited amount of settlers shall I go for more colonies (but weak) or is it better to build a colony to city and then go for another one ?
All kind of feedback and comments are appreciated
regards
Czerpak
King of Poland, Great Prince of Lithuania, Prince of Pskov and Ryazan, Prince of Prusy, Shah of Astrachan, Golden Horde and Sibir
I was reading this forum for a long time, learning a lot from your AARs about the game itself. Now, after finally upgrading my comp, I can finally play myself, so I think it is only fair if I provide you with some sort of AAR about my first game. Unfortunately the idea of doing AAR came up when I was well in the game (actually it was when I annected Sibir and I thought some of you may be interested how this happened LOL) so first 60 years wont be detailed, but I try to give you generall impresssion what was going on.
I play IGC, my goal is to bring Holy Land back to Christian possesion.
1492 - 1558 YEARS OF EXPANSION AND BUILDING
Poland is a catholic kingdom and as such we cannot bear the fact the Holy Land is not under Christian control. We will fight to get it back, but for this we need our country to be the strongest nation in the world. So the plan is simple - expand in easy way first and do the hard job later on.
We start with huge land, big army and weak economy. Maintaining such a big army costs too much, so we want to decrease their size. We think the best way to achieve it is to send them to fight. So our first decissions are to ally with Moldavia (I have polish version of the game, so some names may differ from english versions) and DOW Zakon Krzyzacki (Teutonic Order). Both our and theirs allies (Prusy or Prussia in you version) join the fun. Prusy is our vassal so cowards must be punished. We annected Prusy first and take Kurland (COT) from Teutons in peace treaty.
Next on the list is Rosja (Russia). We wait couple of years, time of peace being used to upgrade our economy (promoting taxmen and judges) and our defense (upgrading fortifications).
Meantime Rosja annected Kazan.
Next three decades were filled with wars against Rosja and her allies (Pskov and Danes, latter always joined the war but never send any troops). Around 1530 Rosja is down to four provinces (Moscow,Tula, Far Karelia and Kola), Pskov and Ryazan have been added to our realm as well.
Last war was very interesting, to say at least. Half of Europe DOWed us and some asian countries as well. Poland with her faithfull ally (vassal later on) Moldavia stood against coalition of few coalitions : Rosja, Szwecja (Sweden), Dania(Danmark), Holsztyn, Pomorze, Hansa, Brandenburgia, TO, Czechy, Saksonia, Turcja, Persja (btw Persja is Turkeys ally), Golden Hordes and some minors I cant remember now. We concentrated on bribing leaders from coalitions we werent interested in fighting, and fought countries we wanted lands from. So we bribed Brandenburgers giving them province of Western Prussia, Turkey received Besarabia and these were the only provinces we had to give up. Others took money in peace negotiations. At the end we were fighting Czechs and their ally Saxony and Golden Horde ( Rosja already ceded some land to us). War ended with annexation of Golden Horde and we also took Silesia from Czechs. IIRC this series of wars lasted some 10 years. We recovered for few years, laying low just not to piss off anybody again and suddenly Astrachan together with Sibir DOWed us. We added both to our realm, which opened the way to the east. We changed religion to counterreformed, thus giving us finally one settler a year.
Now we are in the year 1558 and wondering what to do next.
OT two things I need some help about
First : is there any point of building breweries in provinces without sugar or wine ?
Second : with limited amount of settlers shall I go for more colonies (but weak) or is it better to build a colony to city and then go for another one ?
All kind of feedback and comments are appreciated
regards
Czerpak
King of Poland, Great Prince of Lithuania, Prince of Pskov and Ryazan, Prince of Prusy, Shah of Astrachan, Golden Horde and Sibir
