You have to open a border with the frenchies. With that number of troops, it must be possible to beat them.
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Tends to lie? I wouldn't be surprised if the stat was wrong for a OPM :rofl:Soon America will be purified.
So many ashanti!
Although the game tends to lie when it comes to that pie-chart...
Well, the AAR started with a pretender, so..."We come in peace - or that's what we're pretending"
Yes, but I also have to be able to bring them to the front without racking up WE like crazy.
It was +200 BB from 1650 to 1675, so a higher increase now seems only logical
Chapter 55: Starting the Wrap-up
Apr 1701: Since we've acquired a new Russian beach property, it's time to develop the area. We declare war on Bremen, dragging Danzig, Austria and a few other minors into the war.
Within the month, Danzig and Austria can go back to being at peace, as Samogitia and Wien join the Ashanti Republic.
May 1701: The Rest of the war had to wait until the diplomat delay was over. Bremen is annexed and the alliance leader Friesland is vassalized to protect them from French expansion. With the annexation of Bremen, we get the land connection to the Low Countries.
Oct 1701: That's elections for you. Meet Twum Afrifa, one 6-3-3 Stadtholder replacing another.
Nov 1701: Since we're in the last full century, and we're mostly restricted by truces, it's time to start tying up some loose ends. We attack Persia. Three and a half months later, we cut off six provinces.
Feb 1702: Another opportunity to envelop Russia opens up when the truce with Scandinavia expires.
Apr 1702: While losing the Battle of Lüneburg we've gone on winning our 81st war of aggression.
Jun 1702: Scandinavia is descandinavified. (And so is Finland for those who insist on the distinction )
Jul 1702: To further encircle Russia we attack the Golden Horse and Castille who recently warned us. The war is short and reduces the Golden Horde to an OPM and Castille to only French-bordering provinces.
Dec 1702: Time for another round of British expansion. Scotland is beaten within 2 months. The remaining British colonies will take a bit longer.
May 1703: After 5 months, we've got only the Islands left to conquer.
Jul 1703: Britain loses all of its un-british possessions, including Greenland and their Baltic provinces.
Oct 1703: Japan warns us that our truce with Ming should also soon expire.
Nov 1703: We declare war on Ming. 13 armies amounting to 143,000 soldiers are set into motion, even though one army seemed to have preferred bathing in the Straits of Taiwan instead of reporting for our group picture.
Apr 1704: To cut a short story even shorter, 6 months later large parts of China are once again under Ashanti control.
Jun 1704: That's two more bites taken out of Ming and Japan, but with the average province costing 20% Ming won't be gone soon.
Aug 1704: We once again attack Hungary and Prussia, Champa and the Papal State who recently warned us. But now that we've decoupled Hungary and Russia, this shouldn't be too hard. Of course having an estimated 450,000 soldiers at your disposal never hurt either.
Oct 1704: The minors are quickly dispatched of.
And after 2 months, Hungary is pretty much beaten. Too bad we don't have any Diplomats left to tell them...
Dec 1704: Finally we can send a peace offer to Hungary. We get another two entrances to Russia, a land connection up the Baltic coast and in Transsylvania a good position to attack the Hungarian interior even quicker. By now, Spain is the only isolated part of our Republic.
Coming Up: Not another 2 week sabbatical, promised
Apr 1701: Since we've acquired a new Russian beach property, it's time to develop the area. We declare war on Bremen, dragging Danzig, Austria and a few other minors into the war.
Within the month, Danzig and Austria can go back to being at peace, as Samogitia and Wien join the Ashanti Republic.
May 1701: The Rest of the war had to wait until the diplomat delay was over. Bremen is annexed and the alliance leader Friesland is vassalized to protect them from French expansion. With the annexation of Bremen, we get the land connection to the Low Countries.
Oct 1701: That's elections for you. Meet Twum Afrifa, one 6-3-3 Stadtholder replacing another.
Nov 1701: Since we're in the last full century, and we're mostly restricted by truces, it's time to start tying up some loose ends. We attack Persia. Three and a half months later, we cut off six provinces.
Feb 1702: Another opportunity to envelop Russia opens up when the truce with Scandinavia expires.
Apr 1702: While losing the Battle of Lüneburg we've gone on winning our 81st war of aggression.
Jun 1702: Scandinavia is descandinavified. (And so is Finland for those who insist on the distinction
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Jul 1702: To further encircle Russia we attack the Golden Horse and Castille who recently warned us. The war is short and reduces the Golden Horde to an OPM and Castille to only French-bordering provinces.
Dec 1702: Time for another round of British expansion. Scotland is beaten within 2 months. The remaining British colonies will take a bit longer.
May 1703: After 5 months, we've got only the Islands left to conquer.
Jul 1703: Britain loses all of its un-british possessions, including Greenland and their Baltic provinces.
Oct 1703: Japan warns us that our truce with Ming should also soon expire.
Nov 1703: We declare war on Ming. 13 armies amounting to 143,000 soldiers are set into motion, even though one army seemed to have preferred bathing in the Straits of Taiwan instead of reporting for our group picture.
Apr 1704: To cut a short story even shorter, 6 months later large parts of China are once again under Ashanti control.
Jun 1704: That's two more bites taken out of Ming and Japan, but with the average province costing 20% Ming won't be gone soon.
Aug 1704: We once again attack Hungary and Prussia, Champa and the Papal State who recently warned us. But now that we've decoupled Hungary and Russia, this shouldn't be too hard. Of course having an estimated 450,000 soldiers at your disposal never hurt either.
Oct 1704: The minors are quickly dispatched of.
And after 2 months, Hungary is pretty much beaten. Too bad we don't have any Diplomats left to tell them...
Dec 1704: Finally we can send a peace offer to Hungary. We get another two entrances to Russia, a land connection up the Baltic coast and in Transsylvania a good position to attack the Hungarian interior even quicker. By now, Spain is the only isolated part of our Republic.
Coming Up: Not another 2 week sabbatical, promised
Great to see this back, it's one of the finest AARs around!
It seems that everything is pretty much set for a war in the close future that does devastating damage to the Russians.
It seems that everything is pretty much set for a war in the close future that does devastating damage to the Russians.
It seems Russia Is going to be in real trouble soon. It'll be a nice warm up for France
An update the way I like it, invincible superior armies conquering everything on their path.
The Ashanti continue their path to utter dominance. Good luck with those crazy Russians!
Indeed, however I'll need several devastating wars against Russia, as those provinces are already surprisingly expensive...Great to see this back, it's one of the finest AARs around!
It seems that everything is pretty much set for a war in the close future that does devastating damage to the Russians.
Or the other way aroundIt seems Russia Is going to be in real trouble soon. It'll be a nice warm up for France
Invincible? I'll have to see if I find any stats on my total losses over the last few hundred yearsAn update the way I like it, invincible superior armies conquering everything on their path.
That's what I get for making updates span more than 1 year. Everyone seems to think I win battles. I win wars so that I can avoid battlesSo, the invincible Ashanti army is back
120 years means I'll have time to fight 20 wars against them. That should be more than enough to get their 65 provinces.
It's a strang thing fighting Russia. On the one hand with their entire country filled with level 4 forts it's relatively slow to conquer, however I lose a lot less soldiers to attrition.
Chapter 56: This can't be the way
Mar 1705: Time to test something. To find out what the warscore situation looks like, with respect to blockades and province cost we declare war on France. With only Bavaria as possible entrance to our territory and no strong French forces nearby, we should be pretty safe for 2-3 months.
May 1705: Hungary has gone bankrupt. Now that was unexpected as they don't have much of a fleet.
Jun 1705: Our main battle with France will be fought around Orkney. Since they didn't want to cross into the Highlands ar first, we invited them in. Despite a 3:1 superiority and better leadership, the battle is anything but easy and we lose 5500 troops in the first shock phase, after which the French try to retreat. Using our fleet to block the straits, we force them back into the battle. Ultimately we'll fight them about 6 times, without ever getting close to beating them.
Jul 1705: 4 months after the declaration of war, French troops show up near München. After our experience in Orkney, those 24'000 soldiers aren't something we want to face right now and so our trial war will soon be over.
Aug 1705: And here's the peace treaty. Bavaria is annexed and we force the release of nine German provinces. However, the four warscore from blockades was surprisingly little and most of our warscore came from chasing down the weak Bavarian army and the chain-battle in the Highlands. That's definitely not a tactic we'll want to repeat, so we'll have to think of something new for the next attempt. Still, the new German minors allow us to push forward.
Sep 1705: If anyone has an idea how the French got there without MA through either Aragon or Spain and only 7 transports, please call 555-WTFF
But those mysteries of life can't distract us from our quest to destroy the Green Giant. And so we attack Russia, this time from all sides at once.
Oct 1705: The state of the war after the first month reminds us that Russia is still big.
Our new election finally results in a capable Stadtholder again. Let's hope for many reelections.
Jan 1706: At the pinnacle of a long losing streak throughout the entire war, we lose an entire army at Poltava. Still it's funny to see that that a 20:1 triumph hurt them more than us.
Feb 1706: Since we've maxed out cheap warscore and - more importantly - our armies are low on morale and manpower, it's time to take our winnings and leave. Our new provinces will give us good opportunities to project force into a wide array of Russian provinces. And a few days after ending this war, Hesse and Wurttemberg break their alliances with us. (Not that they joined our previous war...)
Mar 1706: Continuing our Green Period, we attack Portugal and a month later reduce them to OPM status.
Apr 1706: Due to the continuing addition of new cores, we lost Berber as an accepted culture.
Sep 1706: We release Meissen from its vassalisation. Now we hope that they'll soon warn us so we won't have to pay the stability cost for attacking the pagan minor.
Oct 1706: After an excrutiating 6 months at peace, we've replenished our supply of diplomats. We declare war on a coalition of German minors, to take advantage of the receding French border.
Once again, we're paying a high price to hold the enemy in Lüneburg. At least this time two nations lose the war in the same location.
Jan 1707: We annex Danzig and Brunswick and take as many provinces as the French borders allow, reducing Austria to an OPM in the process.
Apr 1707: Turning our attention back to Asia, we attack a coalition of Tibet, the Mongol Khanate and Persia. Within 3 months, Tibet is annexed and Persia and the Mongols become OPMs.
Sep 1707: And in another warning cleanup, we attack OPMs Kazakh, the Golden Horde and Persia, as well as Castille.
Oct 1707: We lose the Battle of Acadia, badly. But despite their victory, the Castilians will soon have 28 regiments without a home in North America.
Seeing as the Icelandic pirates now have the second biggest fleet in the world, it's probably our job to clean up here.
Feb 1708: We take the final Castilian colonies as well as annex Kazakh, the Golden Horde and Persia.
Apr 1708: And finally, witness James V's innovative way to prevent his throne from falling in Douglas Alexander's hands. Unfortunately neither of the two men lived to see May and so we'll never know what Douglas said about James's mother...
Coming Up: Do I really need to spell this out anymore?
Mar 1705: Time to test something. To find out what the warscore situation looks like, with respect to blockades and province cost we declare war on France. With only Bavaria as possible entrance to our territory and no strong French forces nearby, we should be pretty safe for 2-3 months.
May 1705: Hungary has gone bankrupt. Now that was unexpected as they don't have much of a fleet.
Jun 1705: Our main battle with France will be fought around Orkney. Since they didn't want to cross into the Highlands ar first, we invited them in. Despite a 3:1 superiority and better leadership, the battle is anything but easy and we lose 5500 troops in the first shock phase, after which the French try to retreat. Using our fleet to block the straits, we force them back into the battle. Ultimately we'll fight them about 6 times, without ever getting close to beating them.
Jul 1705: 4 months after the declaration of war, French troops show up near München. After our experience in Orkney, those 24'000 soldiers aren't something we want to face right now and so our trial war will soon be over.
Aug 1705: And here's the peace treaty. Bavaria is annexed and we force the release of nine German provinces. However, the four warscore from blockades was surprisingly little and most of our warscore came from chasing down the weak Bavarian army and the chain-battle in the Highlands. That's definitely not a tactic we'll want to repeat, so we'll have to think of something new for the next attempt. Still, the new German minors allow us to push forward.
Sep 1705: If anyone has an idea how the French got there without MA through either Aragon or Spain and only 7 transports, please call 555-WTFF
But those mysteries of life can't distract us from our quest to destroy the Green Giant. And so we attack Russia, this time from all sides at once.
Oct 1705: The state of the war after the first month reminds us that Russia is still big.
Our new election finally results in a capable Stadtholder again. Let's hope for many reelections.
Jan 1706: At the pinnacle of a long losing streak throughout the entire war, we lose an entire army at Poltava. Still it's funny to see that that a 20:1 triumph hurt them more than us.
Feb 1706: Since we've maxed out cheap warscore and - more importantly - our armies are low on morale and manpower, it's time to take our winnings and leave. Our new provinces will give us good opportunities to project force into a wide array of Russian provinces. And a few days after ending this war, Hesse and Wurttemberg break their alliances with us. (Not that they joined our previous war...)
Mar 1706: Continuing our Green Period, we attack Portugal and a month later reduce them to OPM status.
Apr 1706: Due to the continuing addition of new cores, we lost Berber as an accepted culture.
Sep 1706: We release Meissen from its vassalisation. Now we hope that they'll soon warn us so we won't have to pay the stability cost for attacking the pagan minor.
Oct 1706: After an excrutiating 6 months at peace, we've replenished our supply of diplomats. We declare war on a coalition of German minors, to take advantage of the receding French border.
Once again, we're paying a high price to hold the enemy in Lüneburg. At least this time two nations lose the war in the same location.
Jan 1707: We annex Danzig and Brunswick and take as many provinces as the French borders allow, reducing Austria to an OPM in the process.
Apr 1707: Turning our attention back to Asia, we attack a coalition of Tibet, the Mongol Khanate and Persia. Within 3 months, Tibet is annexed and Persia and the Mongols become OPMs.
Sep 1707: And in another warning cleanup, we attack OPMs Kazakh, the Golden Horde and Persia, as well as Castille.
Oct 1707: We lose the Battle of Acadia, badly. But despite their victory, the Castilians will soon have 28 regiments without a home in North America.
Seeing as the Icelandic pirates now have the second biggest fleet in the world, it's probably our job to clean up here.
Feb 1708: We take the final Castilian colonies as well as annex Kazakh, the Golden Horde and Persia.
Apr 1708: And finally, witness James V's innovative way to prevent his throne from falling in Douglas Alexander's hands. Unfortunately neither of the two men lived to see May and so we'll never know what Douglas said about James's mother...
Coming Up: Do I really need to spell this out anymore?
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The point, as can be seen in the latest update as well as anywhere, is that the Ashanti armies are invincible as far as entire wars go. The individual battles don't matter
Yeah, it'll take a couple of wars to finish the Russians, but they're definitely looking smaller on the map already And like you eloquently told us, you can now strike all over them (which makes your brand of quick war so much easier to pull off).
Also, nice job limiting French influence in Germany. That force release was as good a way as any to bring them down a notch at this point - not to mention the gains that it enabled you to make.
Yeah, it'll take a couple of wars to finish the Russians, but they're definitely looking smaller on the map already
And like you eloquently told us, you can now strike all over them (which makes your brand of quick war so much easier to pull off).Also, nice job limiting French influence in Germany. That force release was as good a way as any to bring them down a notch at this point - not to mention the gains that it enabled you to make.
FRance is gonna take the century to complete. But The Habsburgs are down, so are the Romanovs, and the Spanish are coming to an end.
Why dont you try to see if you can get a border with Le bleus in Iberia and in Germany/Belgium. They cant possible manage all that.
Why dont you try to see if you can get a border with Le bleus in Iberia and in Germany/Belgium. They cant possible manage all that.
Indeed, as far as bringing down majors is concerned, force releasing nations is by far the quickest way (afaik it cost's 2/3 as much as taking the provinces for yourself)The point, as can be seen in the latest update as well as anywhere, is that the Ashanti armies are invincible as far as entire wars go. The individual battles don't matter
Yeah, it'll take a couple of wars to finish the Russians, but they're definitely looking smaller on the map already
Also, nice job limiting French influence in Germany. That force release was as good a way as any to bring them down a notch at this point - not to mention the gains that it enabled you to make.
And thanks for the "eloquently", my English teacher used to call it verbosely
If this chapter had turned out differently, I'd have done this in #58. This way it'll have to wait five more years...
James Watt would have been so proud, if he'd been born yetthe ashanti may have only phyrric victories , they are steamrolling the world
Indeed, they went :rofl:Go Scotland!!!
Chapter 57: You know you're winning when this is considered a failure
Jul 1708: After going on a discovery spree, we invest our amassed tradition on a new Admiral who's got everything you could ask for, apart from worthy opponent...
Sep 1708: Wars against Great Britain used to be more exciting back when they were actually great.
Jun 1709: During the last few eventless months, Toledo is converted to animism. And since our supply of diplomats has finally recovered, we declare war on Japan and Ming. Despite fighting numerous wars in the last 40 years, the two still manage to field almost 120,000 soldiers.
Oct 1709: We've reached Government tech 33 and choose Scientific Revolution as our eighth idea.
Our soldiers have been busy too and have taken all of Southern China and Japan, enough to force a peace on our junior opponent.
And, at a cost of 97 warscore, we force Ming to release 7 expensive provinces, including the capital/CoT in Jiangsu. With all this success, it's no surprise our 7/7/8 Stadthholder Yanza Moyoyo wins another term.
Jan 1710: We declare war on Brunei, triggering Hungarian and Papal warnings.
Feb 1710: After 50 days, Brunei is annexed while most of Western Hungary is under our control. Further west in Papal lands, there's an race between our troops and 15,000 rebels to get to unfortified Schwyz first.
May 1710: We won that race as well as the subsequent battle and managed to take Lombardia before the Rebels arrived. This enables us to make peace, taking four more provinces from Hungary.
Aug 1710: Having been warned by them anyway, it's time for another attempt to set up a good war on France. This time we'll hurt the French enough to force them to release a coastal minor, which we will then conquer and thus open another front in the real war.
Sep 1710: This time we handle the Orkney matter differently, even if it means our holding army gets beat up quite badly. The Orkney fort falls quickly to our army and the French can't do anything with just 8,000 infantry.
Dec 1710: No matter the warscore, taking just one province doesn't seem to be enough to force France to the negotiating table. Therefore we land an army at Caux, one of the few lightly fortified provinces.
After getting two Diplomatic Moves within a week, we've got to find something to do with our spare diplomats. We release Tirol from its vassalization and wage a short war on Sibir which will turn it into an OPM within two months.
Jan 1711: As a nice side effect of the capture of Caux, the French fleet is forced out of their safe port right into our fleet. At least our new Admiral got one big battle for his resume.
With two French provinces in our hands (and our invading army locked in battle with a stronger French force), we get the French to agree to a peace treaty. They cede Orkney and release 3 province Normandy. However, our still ongoing war with Sibir prevents us from dissolving the alliance with Normandy and attacking them. But since France had them guaranteed within two weeks, we wouldn't have had the time to declare war on them anyway, so that plan can be shelved.
Apr 1711: In small war news, we finally annex Portugal and reduce our former vassal Tirol (which had very politely warned us to save us the stability point for attacking them) to their capital.
Jul 1711: In bigger war news, it's Russia's turn. Most of the Russian army are concentrated around St. Petersburg, but with some luck we'll be able to slow them down.
Aug 1711: As usual with Russia only about half the sieges succeed, and so after the first month Russia still looks pretty green.
Unfortunately we failed to stop the Russians and now the fort in Ingermanland is under assault. If the assault succeeds this will put a quick end to the war.
Sep 1711: Indeed, we have to settle for a rather meager early peace to prevent losing Ingermanland, which would cost us about 30 warscore to retake.
Coming Up: Third time's the charm?
Jul 1708: After going on a discovery spree, we invest our amassed tradition on a new Admiral who's got everything you could ask for, apart from worthy opponent...
Sep 1708: Wars against Great Britain used to be more exciting back when they were actually great.
Jun 1709: During the last few eventless months, Toledo is converted to animism. And since our supply of diplomats has finally recovered, we declare war on Japan and Ming. Despite fighting numerous wars in the last 40 years, the two still manage to field almost 120,000 soldiers.
Oct 1709: We've reached Government tech 33 and choose Scientific Revolution as our eighth idea.
Our soldiers have been busy too and have taken all of Southern China and Japan, enough to force a peace on our junior opponent.
And, at a cost of 97 warscore, we force Ming to release 7 expensive provinces, including the capital/CoT in Jiangsu. With all this success, it's no surprise our 7/7/8 Stadthholder Yanza Moyoyo wins another term.
Jan 1710: We declare war on Brunei, triggering Hungarian and Papal warnings.
Feb 1710: After 50 days, Brunei is annexed while most of Western Hungary is under our control. Further west in Papal lands, there's an race between our troops and 15,000 rebels to get to unfortified Schwyz first.
May 1710: We won that race as well as the subsequent battle and managed to take Lombardia before the Rebels arrived. This enables us to make peace, taking four more provinces from Hungary.
Aug 1710: Having been warned by them anyway, it's time for another attempt to set up a good war on France. This time we'll hurt the French enough to force them to release a coastal minor, which we will then conquer and thus open another front in the real war.
Sep 1710: This time we handle the Orkney matter differently, even if it means our holding army gets beat up quite badly. The Orkney fort falls quickly to our army and the French can't do anything with just 8,000 infantry.
Dec 1710: No matter the warscore, taking just one province doesn't seem to be enough to force France to the negotiating table. Therefore we land an army at Caux, one of the few lightly fortified provinces.
After getting two Diplomatic Moves within a week, we've got to find something to do with our spare diplomats. We release Tirol from its vassalization and wage a short war on Sibir which will turn it into an OPM within two months.
Jan 1711: As a nice side effect of the capture of Caux, the French fleet is forced out of their safe port right into our fleet. At least our new Admiral got one big battle for his resume.
With two French provinces in our hands (and our invading army locked in battle with a stronger French force), we get the French to agree to a peace treaty. They cede Orkney and release 3 province Normandy. However, our still ongoing war with Sibir prevents us from dissolving the alliance with Normandy and attacking them. But since France had them guaranteed within two weeks, we wouldn't have had the time to declare war on them anyway, so that plan can be shelved.
Apr 1711: In small war news, we finally annex Portugal and reduce our former vassal Tirol (which had very politely warned us to save us the stability point for attacking them) to their capital.
Jul 1711: In bigger war news, it's Russia's turn. Most of the Russian army are concentrated around St. Petersburg, but with some luck we'll be able to slow them down.
Aug 1711: As usual with Russia only about half the sieges succeed, and so after the first month Russia still looks pretty green.
Unfortunately we failed to stop the Russians and now the fort in Ingermanland is under assault. If the assault succeeds this will put a quick end to the war.
Sep 1711: Indeed, we have to settle for a rather meager early peace to prevent losing Ingermanland, which would cost us about 30 warscore to retake.
Coming Up: Third time's the charm?
I love the strategy you're using with France and Russia, but dancing around will not finish the French before the end of the game. I assume the next war or the one after will be when you start taking proper chunks out of them.
Tough luck with the Russians but you still took a respectable haul of provinces off them. Huge numbers of troops and frenzied fort build seem to be the preferred strategies for a pagan only using their own troop type.
Tough luck with the Russians but you still took a respectable haul of provinces off them. Huge numbers of troops and frenzied fort build seem to be the preferred strategies for a pagan only using their own troop type.