GrenadierSchube: Yes, blood and iron!
Supeerme: Patience...
TonyJoe: Mexico is a tempting target. But I don't discriminate.
France is an equal opportunity annexer
Kitchen.Sink: That's actually a cool username! Yes, it's much more fun getting prestige by bashing in your opponent's skulls than inventing positivism...
Projekt 919: Don't worry, we'll buy lots of BBQ food, encourage all decent families to have a varied set of firearms, and still keep college football
dralasite: I think you've got to occupy 2 different regions for the name shift. It wasn't until I conquered Korea that it became "
French Asia". I suspect when I get part of Mexico or Canada it will then become "
French North America" But, as I said, it's all just preliminaries until "
French Earth"
Strategic Fail: I think my pics will come back. I looked at Photobucket's FAQ and it said something about checking a user's bandwidth every month. I should be under their limit now but got to wait until the recheck it. At least I think...
Judas Maccabeus: Yes, the USA needs to learn a few lessons about the prowess of the
French military!
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July 1866
I swear you can't leave these other countries alone for 5 minutes before they go messing up your grand schemes... The Russians have also got their grubby hands into the Ottomans so I've got to take them out pronto before those other countries get too big to
annex.
Our glorious campaign is underway! Notice the Russians have cut Asia Minor in two; we make ambitions landings in the Balkans and Eastern part of Asia Minor to compensate.
And after the peace. Sometimes the Paradox AI just makes you laugh. The all-mighty Greeks and their whole two provinces, voluntarily joined the war on the Ottomans side. There had to be some serious miscalculation in Athens how the war was going to turn out
Greek Defense Minister (Alcibiades): I think we should intervene in the
French - Ottoman war.
Greek Prime Minister (Pericles): I see; we'll join on the side of the
French, right?
Alcibiades: No, the Ottomans.
Pericles: But don't the
French have like a gazillion armies?
Alcibiades: Yeah, that's just it; they have too many troops. They couldn't possibly equip, train, and indoctrinate them all effectively. It's just a rabble mob and probably waiting for the first moment to desert and join the Revolution.
Pericles: I see your point.
Alcibiades: So what could we demand from Paris after we win?
Pericles: I hear the South of
France is nice...
In any case, it doesn't take a strategic genius to look at the map and deduce our next target:
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Egypt baby!
Maintaining a gazillion troops is expensive!
Egypt is big! But in six months we've taken out almost all their Asian provinces and are well down (or actually it's technically "up") the Nile. And I see socialists have graced me with their first appearance in my parliament. Great, more revolutionary idiots as if the Jacobins and Reactionaries haven't already almost ruined my game in the 1840s
Technologies researched:
I actually think machine guns is an overrated tech. In all games such as this, Civilization, etc., I am most assuredly attacking and get waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more mileage out of techs and units that attack.
I've kept up on my naval technology because when I tried to do a WC with Vikky 1, the Royal Navy pwned my ass for 40 years or so which made fighting the Brits unpleasant.
The commerce line of techs is most definitely not created equal. The line on the extreme left (Financial Institutions) = ££££££££££££££ The line in the very middle, (economic thought & critique) = blah.
LOL at this branch. Political Thought is good for focus points. If Freud were
French, he would've thought women envied men because they were in the army and fired guns
Another money making line of research. This whole tree will get researched in time.
I have no idea why you could only wage one war in Vikki 1 but I'm glad Paradox removed that ignorant "feature" and allow for multiple wars in Vikky 2. We take advantage and DOW Spain for no other reason than they are my neighbor. Plus their national sports teams are way too good and have overshadowed Les Bleus
o Sacrebleu!
Commerce raiders are good! And it is very nice to be on the right end of the naval tech race!
Fighting in the Philippines.
Overwhelming Spanish defenders and mobilized reserves before they can get their ORG up. I'm not sure I'm a fan of ORG going to crap when spending is cut in peacetime. The AI can't defend its borders effectively when it is on the receiving end of a DOW. But I'm not going to wait months after a DOW to assuage my pangs of guilt.
Not a good day for the Spanish Navy :rofl:
31 January 1871: Vive la France!!! Egypt is annexed
Finally, a
Frenchman can walk from Shanghai to Tunis without needing a passport! Though a canteen filled with water is probably a good idea...
A few clicks to the left on military spending, a few click to raise tariffs and a -2000 £/day turns into +1200 £/day. Economic crisis averted
Peace
4 June 1871