Except the commune is landlocked, so he'd have to invade the US anyway.
Or just get military access...
Except the commune is landlocked, so he'd have to invade the US anyway.
Maybe you'll get lucky and the Manhattan Commune will emerge, letting you nab it without having to go to war with the USA.
(Just don't plan your game's strategy around that possibility )
Except the commune is landlocked, so he'd have to invade the US anyway.
Or just get military access...
I've never gotten military access from the AI.
I have, once or twice. Mostly when I'm large enough that I could honestly just declare war (pre-AHD) to gain access if they refused...
I have, once or twice. Mostly when I'm large enough that I could honestly just declare war (pre-AHD) to gain access if they refused...
Subbed.
AI only gives me MA if they're in my sphere, we're at war with the same country, or we have REALLY good relations/are allies.
Subscribed. I want to see if you take back the Cape from the dastardly Brits!
looking forward to the 1st update but i think that you should add re captureing places like ceylon and south africa to your county as a goal. its easier to get them early because there are no indian death sticks at the begining of the game in south africa and the british havent got cores, but if i was you i wouldent declare war on belgium unless you are sure that france isant gonna declare war on you. good luck
Looking forward to this.
The Dutch are hard to start with. If you go to war with Belgium immediately the British will join, and almost immediately the French start to justify a war for Guyana. I wish you the best of luck, and I will be following closely.
I love the concept of a Political-based AHD AAR (if I had the time I'd write one up myself) and I'm pretty much obligated to at least try and follow every Dutch Vicky II AAR, so here I am!
PS. Unless things have changed radically from vanilla 1.1 (Hah! as if...) destroy the Belgian Army ASAP. Don't worry too much about occupying territory until their main force is destroyed, then divide and occupy! Oh and either wait for Belgium to become a GP before invading or hope to God the US decides to "liberate" Quebec very early on...
One thing that has changed since 1.1 is that Belgium no longer has a tendency to become a GP (in 1.1 it was practically a given). Another is that the UK and USA settle their territorial differences through a decision, so wars between them are quite rare, except for much later in the game. I don't believe I've seen a Netherlands or Belgium AAR for AHD, so this should be quite interesting.
he shouldent have to much trouble with britain at the start of the game, and the british only drop of around 30,000 troops a year when they havent got a border with a country, i managed to beat britain as sardinia-piedmont and 2 sicilies because they never use the full force of their navy to blockade you and they dont use the full potencial of their armies.
Good call.
the dutch took control of ceylon from the portugese and they where forced to give it to britain during the napoleonic wars. and regarding how strong britain is they still build hundreds of death stacks but they are usless at deploying troops to other places. i fought britain and france at the begining of a ahd game the french sent 60,000 troops across through belgium which i killed and that was it, i took french guyana from them and i took cape colony from britain and annexed belgium, but try and avoid fighting france. good luck cant wait for it.