Balance of Power : Austria 1.25 AAR

[Tom D.]

So before I close, I want to give my impression of the Espionage success at supporting rebels. It was fun to play with a feature I seldom use, but the verdict is clear: it is a very weak weapon. I ended up spending about 3K on supporting British particularists. They did revolt twice . Which usually would not happen if Support efficiency is at the base 100% . BUt the rebellions were quickly crushed. Similarly, I supported Danish rebellion in PLC , spawned a leaderless 70K stack which was promptly crushed by the PLC.

I think the mechanic doesn't scale along with the difficulty, I mean: if I had to face a 70k stack that would/could be a drain on my manpower and armies, but don't forget this is now Very Hard so the AI is severely buffed. It wouldn't surprise me if this was normal some AI might have way more difficulty trying to defeat those stacks than your AI has now.

 

[Oldpara]

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So before I close, I want to give my impression of the Espionage success at supporting rebels. It was fun to play with a feature I seldom use, but the verdict is clear: it is a very weak weapon. I ended up spending about 3K on supporting British particularists. They did revolt twice . Which usually would not happen if Support efficiency is at the base 100% . BUt the rebellions were quickly crushed. Similarly, I supported Danish rebellion in PLC , spawned a leaderless 70K stack which was promptly crushed by the PLC.

I will continue to use it , but I think more of it as a nuisane to distract the enemy , rather than a real way to weaken them and make them lose land.

There are only 20 more years left. I anticipate a maintained balance for the duration.

I think support Rebels mechanic is designed more for role play. Every time you decide to spend loads of money to support Rebels you should do a follow up with Dow using support Rebels CB to help them win. Even if the Rebels gets crushed immediately, you still can enforce their demands cutting down your rival significantly. But with cores dissappearing quickly, it's not efficient machanic at all.

 

[stnylan]

I suspect Support Rebels can be more effective when a nation already has other distractions, such as wars, or another rebellion ongoing. And probably on lower difficulties as @Tom D. says.

I suppose also the faster espionage gain allows you to Slander/Infiltrate etc more easily as well?

 

[sebas379]

Read the whole thing in a lost afternoon, its an interesting and different take on the game from the useual empirebuilding/blobbing.