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Playing as Spain, can't remember the year.
As you can see I have colonized most southern point of South America, taken a few states from Peru and 1 state from Bolivia, taken 3 states from France, annexed Yemen & Oman, colonized a tiny island near Dutch colony in Indonesia, taken Florida and American New England.
I took Florida and New England thanks to the American Civil War. I declared war on US when CSA was close to getting defeated and I liberated around 10 CSA regions until US gave me peace offer, offering the regions the wanted and Colorado for Mexico (Mexico set it as their war goal and I wanted to help a country under my SoI expand). I also built Panama and Suez canals.
The hardest thing was getting those 3 French states, that was really hard and I was close to loosing most of the time. First one was that state bordering Mediterrian. I wanted to play a bit defensively at the beginning and counter attack when I get a chance. I was blockading every French port, but that didn't give a lot of warscore sadly. The French brought in like 260 brigades to that frontline and I didn't even have 200 (more than half of my armies are in colonies). After long fighting, I managed to get several major victories that got me around ~30 warscore. By that time half of Spain was occupied, but I was starting to win the war and I liberating all regions with my massive stack, the French made peace and gave me that state.
I wanted to get another state connecting me to Sardinia, but my army was devastated. I could have probably managed something, but the Brits, Russians and Prussians were already at war with France and that was the only thing that could have given me a victory, but then I thought that the wars could end soon as all of those 3 nations were loosing, so I made peace.
The second war was a few years later when the truce ended, this time I was prepared and had twice as many brigades, but sadly France had too. This time I had a massively large defensive line with a lot of reserves behind. After a few months of fighting, I managed to break throught and got into a massive battle. The thing below the soldiers was showing 500 on French side and 400 on my side, thought I was winning due to leaders (French had no leaders) and superior technology. My whole army was stuck in that battle and the French were sending in reserves, thankfully I sent some troops from Morocco as I won the French in their colonies.
Then I won like 3 major victories and chased the French army around. I managed to surround the battle so when I would win the French huge stack would get disbanded, thankfully the armies that surrounded the main stack were attacked and won several battles that earned me enough warscore and France gave up.
Eh..
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