Beats me.. But who cares. Naxos CROSSED the Bosporus now, into Turkish mainland! Their capital fell, and my allies sieged the other fort across the Bosporus..
The forts in the Balkans fell short after, and all troops got moved across the Bosporus.
Hungary decided its good idea to start a siege on a mountain fort in the east... Yeah sure, go ahead!
Outsieging the AI has always been a cornerstone of my overallwar strategy..
This is VERY important. Siege pips on generals combined with max artillery bonus gives you +5 or +7 bonus to rolls on sieges easily! And it makes a siege start at positive chance sometimes, if you can also BLOCKADE the fort 100%.. This siege started at 0% success chance from day 1!
Basic rule of thumb is that 1k artillery always gives +1 bonus to sieges. After that, you need 5k artillery for each fort level. So a level 2 fort needs 10k (total) artillery in the siege stack to get +5 siege bonus (the maximum). A level 4 fort 20k, and so on.
ERRR.. Are you blind, Ottomans? Those aren't MY troops, those are REBEL stacks!
I am starting to wonder if this is a bug.. Allies will kill rebel stacks on your territory or on occupied territory during a war.. But it seems the ENEMY also goes for rebel stacks from THEIR enemy during a war..?
There are no forts down here.. I really don't get WHAT the Ottomans are doing here..
My war was won at this point, but I was curious what the Ottomans would do...
Yeah, once more they go for my rebel stacks..
Has anyone else seen this erratic behaviour?
Anyways, time to make peace.
Naxos took control of the Bosporus straits! And I got my core back from Iraq. I border Persia now again.. Note that Iraq got independent during coalition war, and then Ottomans ate them..
I still got a core on that one Iraqi province!
I deleted the fort in Edirne, and now the 2 straits can NOT be crossed by the Ottomans without sieging the forts that guard it. That will mean a HUGE difference in follow up wars.
Note that I also do this to get control of the Constantinople trade node over time.
Our allies were bled dry after all this.. Hence why Naxos asked Sweden to ally and marry them. Sweden ate most of Norway and Denmark, and they have discipline and +infantry combat ability, like the Ottomans.
Najd conquered Sharjah, that also got independent during coalition war. Naxos started reconquest war versus them, and also a war versus Golden Horde. These wars were pre-emptive strikes, to prevent them from joining a coalition..
Both nations had no allies. Easy wars.
Relations with Muscovy were still friendly, our RM was still active, and Muscovy ruler is 59 and still HEIRLESS. Sweden is rival of Muscovy, and is flagged as willing to attack us in a succession war, should the Muscovite ruler die without an heir!
Err, ok? That would give me free PU over Muscovy, and a chance to feed Sweden to Muscovy, and to take a Finnish province near Muscovy for myself.. (You can core all provinces NEXT to PU subjects also, this is why Poland can core next to Lithuania in Golden horde, for example).
Exciting isn't it? Let's cross our fingers..
But it wasn't my main concern. The former coalition nations all came out of truce, and Spain also. I *have* to attack, or Spain will likely form coalition again once they end that war versus Corsica.
I had prepared for this during the last months.
The situation: Spain declared on Corsica. 30k of their troops are sieging the province. A fleet is flagged as movement locked to the sea tile where my fleet is.
I declared NOW, with the intent of trapping the brunt of the Spanish troops on those islands...
Portugal and provence protect Spain.
I had landed troops near Lisboa before this war started, and they immediatly marched on Portugal. The idea is to annul their alliances and to peace them out quickly.
The ai is quite good at dodging your main fleet. BUT a few fresh galleys rowed like there was no tomorrow, and they will arrive just in time to engage the Spanish fleet.. And that will give the main fleet time to row in also!
Back in 1.9.2 and the Ryukyu aar, I was complaining a lot about the AI NOT making transports for their army.. Now the AI does do that, but they sometimes forget to protect their cog fleet!
50 Naxian galleys engaged the Spanish cogs!
See that 19k Spanish stack on Sardinia? They are TRAPPED now. A total of 36k Spanish troops trapped.
The main Spanish fleet retreated westwards (can't catch them BOO!) and I smiled ear to ear.
Almost the entire army of Spain is trapped on those islands..
Porto got occupied, and The Naxian armies marched on Toledo, whistling on the way.
Their capital fell fast.. 3 months and done. Spain is incredibly vulnerable after I took that land from Portugal..
Provence tried to resiege Porto, and I just black flagged them with my annul alliance seperate peace with Portugal. The idea is to attack them for real when they are without, allies and out of truce.
Important tip: annulling alliances lasts for TEN years. The idea is to make your seperate peace deliver a truce SHORTER then ten years, and then you can attack the involved nation again without (the old) allies. They can't re-ally.. Best to ask only 2x% warscore worth of stuff, because you got to get 25% warscore on the next war BEFORE the annul alliance ten years is over.. If you don't get 25% warscore before those ten years are over, they might ally their former allies again DURING the follow up war! Avoid that.
In other news: Naxos full annexed Golden horde. Ain't that a nice Naxosian Crimea now?!
The pope got attacked also, because why not. Got to love bashing the pope.. Especially if the clergy estate rules the nation!
In other news: Naxos full annexed Najd. Ain't that a nice Naxosian Arabia now?!
Francesco was fishing the Caspian Sea, and thought of Orlando Gavalas.
"Naxos controls the Levant now Orlando.. You would have been proud of the Crusade so far!"
He rowed back to the holy fishing village port of Astrakhan, and went to visit Orlando Gavalas Junior and his daughter Ariadne of Habsburg.
"Your son is guarding the future Empress of Naxos, Orlando.. And from the looks of it, I made a good choice naming him Kingsguard. Ariadne simply adores her knight in shining armour.."
The old king walked to the garden bench, and watched Orlando Junior practice swordplay in the Water Gardens. He dozed off, and dreamt of Ariadne riding the back of her white knight. They both wondered why daddy was smiling when he slept..
Spain saw its fleet sunk, their armies trapped, their ports blockaded, and their forts falling one by one..
This war is won.
The Pope got reduced to OPM. Can't full annex him, or Naxos would get penalty to diplomatic reputation until forever..
He can keep Rome, I guess.
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