Therion said:A recurrent trend I see is France easily winning the HYW (or rather, England not even attempting to win it) without bothering to take those last 3,4 coastal French provinces.
check post 1078.
base and front work together , they represent a % of each other , so a base of
2.0 and a front of 2.0 means 50% of troops in capital 50% of troops on the frontier.
Base of 1.0 and a front of 4.0 means 20% in the capital , 80% of troops on the frontier, etc etc etc
NOTE: these work exactly as described in PEACE time, in war a higher base than front will not see much action by owner state until that taken province is free of enemy troops, .............a front much higher than base will mean troops are made and immediately sent to the front, IF the "made" troops are only a small number , then the outcome will be anniahaltion and loss of warscore.
maybe we need to test a happy medium of 50% at capital and 50% to the frontier.
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On this portion of the AI file ..
conquer = {
enemy = 5.0
supply = 5.2
distance = 9.0
owner = 4.0 #was 1.0
notsupply = 3.0
base = 9.0
the OWNER (above) of 1.0 will not care to retake its taken province , but will attack the enemy directly or in their provinces, a 4.0 means ( tested) cares somewhat to take some of its provinces back , and a 7.0 ( used in MAM Ai file and confirmed) will retake all its lost provinces, be it by loss from war or rebels.
Testing is very difficult and time consuming