Texas could become the biggest exporter, producer and user of propane and propane accessories.
haha, thats going in my sig.
Sorry for the week long delay. I've had quite abit going on in real life so I haven't really had any time to play V2, much less write these reports. Still I've pretty much gotten the next 2 chapters written and I just need to upload the screens to imageshack (which is incredibly difficult with my slow connection) so here is the next chapter.
Chapter 17: Same Old, Same Old...
After my last war with the U.S. they were in really bad shape. They're rebel problem was worse then ever and it eventually got to the point where anarcho libs controlled every region in the U.S., but we will get to that later. It was only a few months after the end of that war that my truce with the U.K. expired, this gave me just enough time to get my armies into position to prepare for the upcoming declaration of war from the U.K.. I station my guys two or three regions deep along our border in Canada. However something strange happens, the truce expires and the U.K. decides not to declare war, I then take matters into my own hands and declare war on the U.K. myself.
This time I run into another problem I have never had with the U.K. before, the British don't attack, they just stand there. It took me about a week or two but I eventually realized the British wouldn't come after me so I would have to go after them. I then send my armies into Manitoba and the Northwest territories. The British are heavily outgunned and are behind me tech wise so they retreat pretty early on which doesn't give me much of a war score boost. I continue to push onward but I begin to realize that without major battles to get me that 25+ war score, I was going to have a very tough time getting the war score up to even 10.
A few months before the war started I had finished researching planes and by now the first few airplanes were rolling off the line and being used in battle. These helped me take almost all of the northwest territories fairly quickly but I still needed to win battles to get my war score up. It's not that the British didn't have armies to fight in Canada, but that they didn't want to fight. Eventually though, they do bring up about 12 brigades into the northwest territories. It wasn't much but I was able to surround them to force them to stay in the fight, and crush their army for a little war score bonus. It was only like 2.5 points, but it was something.
Right before I finished capturing Manitoba, Nunavut, and the northwest territories, the British began to get a bit more aggressive and they moved their armies up from the east coast to fight me. I managed to bait them into attacking me in a battle at Winnipeg and I launch an offensive into Pickle and two major battles break up. In both battles I encircle the British and use my numbers to crush them. Throughout this whole campaign I was able to keep some of my units back to just sort of stand there. I eventually win both battles and just about wipe the British out of North America, after these battles I had already gotten the 25% boost I needed from war score though.
I guess you could say, I caught the British in a bit of a pickle =p.
The war was going great and I decided to add conquer Manitoba as a war goal along with my original northwest territories war goal. The only problem I was starting to have was money related. While I used to have a mountain of cash, the constant wars were taking a tool on my budget and I had gone down from 6 mil to about 2.5 in a short period of time. I raise tariffs from 0 to 20 and raise taxes on the rich from 1 to 10, hoping it would give me some more time. One of the reasons for my budget shortfall was that I hadn't researched commerce techs that much as I only had 7/30 compared to being maxed out for my age in Industrial and Army techs. I start to research the techs that increase tax efficiency and that begins to save my economy and I am able to lower tariffs down to 15. Hopefully a few more techs will allow me to lower tariffs back to 0.
My new airplane brigades are able to really speed up occupations and it doesn't take long for me to occupy everything and start to work on Quebec. The British had started to occupy Balboa but I call in my allies in Colombia to deal with them down there. Despite Colombia's power though, they can't keep the region out of British hands, ahh well. By about this time I was able to get my war score up just enough from occupying Canadian regions so that I had a war score of 30 something. This gives me enough of a score to take both of the regions and get a peace deal with the U.K.
It appears the word Texas is stuck up in British Colombia again, *sigh*. Guess I will have to get to work on that.
I pull all my armies out of Canada and place most of them on my southern border where I already had a few brigades just hanging out. In my last war with Mexico I picked up two regions but I thought the borders looked a bit funny so I planned to fix that problem and take Chihuaha.
Since our last war the Mexicans had gotten very defensive. Despite having a population that was only a 5th of mine, Mexico had almost as many brigades. Some provinces such as Mexico city were 15% solders. Still, Mexico was backwards technology wise and my forces were able to trap them pretty easily as well as beat them to the provinces they retreated to after a loss which just made things worse for them. Even when I was the attacker the fights were pretty one sided.
Mexico mobilizes but it's not enough, I now have two armies made up of airplane brigades along with a few supporting units that can take regions very fast. I am able to use the advantage to start taking Chihuahua while my fighting brigades continue to clean up the Mexicans. It doesn't take long for me to get their brigade numbers down from 300 (after they mobilized) to about 150, I then battle the rest of those units in Cidudad Victoria, this goes on for quite a while but when it's all said and done, they were down to just 16 brigades.
My war score was still just a bit shy of the 75 mark I needed but I decided I would start on something else. A couple years ago Cuba became it's own country, and with no brigades and no allies it looked like an easy pick up for me. I declared war on them and then moved 4 armor and 4 cavalry brigades to the island. Cuba did have one brigade by the time I got there and they did mobilize to get another, but they are no match for me and with no forts the island is mine quickly.
At about the same time though, my forces in Mexico continue to occupy more land and push the war score up. I soon get a peace offer from Mexico offering me Chihuaha and a little while later that week to fully annex Cuba
Now for a quick update on global news.
The U.S. has been taken over by Anarcho Liberal rebels and is now a presidential dictatorship.
Soon after the CSA declared war and is currently trying to retake Maryland in an ongoing war. The U.S. lost great power status after the rebels took over and Colombia has moved into the #8 spot. Colombia is still allied with me so I shouldn't have to worry about them trying to take Balboa but they won't help me defend the province either. By this point I am no longer sphering new countries in the Americas since most of them I would like to conquer eventually. Argentina has been taken over by communists as well and they are no longer in my sphere. This is how the ledger looked about 6 months before the U.S. gets taken over.
I've pretty much locked up the #2 slot and I hope to be able to catch the U.K. before 1936, however they seem to be gaining ground and with 15 years I don't have much time left. Maybe if I dreadnaught spam I can reach them. Also in Europe, Austria Hungary and the North Germany federation have formed, both of them are great powers. Africa is still one big french blob with the exception of the British in the south and the Congo free state which is a satellite of the NGF. India still looks like a bowl of fruity pebbles and most countries in South America continue to have the same borders, although Chile and Argentina are now at war.