I have to put my last word in before I am off, & since I am now no longer in control of any country I will try to make it less bias than usual.
France's loose of power was due to the simple fact HG is much better at war than me. I like fighting wars, with HG & KJ especially, since to me it is the whole point of the game. I could have told you before I fought that last war that I was going to loose. HG had a vast treasury from all those -inflation events, & is of course able to beat me when I have leader advantage, better sliders, & fire on him. Simple fact is I was bored & didn't want to waste my last session siting on my hands, sorry TG.
France is not a lost cause though, I pulled down the innovative slider a couple times with events & moved towards free trade to give them some colonist. My suggestion would be to fortify the northern border heavily to keep HG in long sieges & then try to muster up cavalry superiority to drive him off in those nice open planes (If my great leader would not have died of natural causes during the war I might have been able to pull off that plan myself, at one point HGs great general was down to 20k cavalry & he was mercing up to the north). Build up a colonial empire (I had wanted to move east, but with Venice owning India & Spain in South Africa all ready that doesn't seem to feasible) & do as HG said & wait for a better time for France unless you can get together a couple coalitions.
HG is right overall Russia is on parity with Austria for most purposes, & they have greater potential with their natural land rout to East Asia. A coalition of two of her four neighbors can almost always take her down (& that doesn't even count England coming across the channel). Spain too is very powerful, but yet again a coalition of any two of her neighbors (Venice & England count as well since they are both naval) stand a good chance of taking her down, especially once Venice gets TT 3 & England builds up her soon to come naval & colonial advantages. That does not even include the prospect of the Ottomans taking away all her nice vassals someday in the future & forcing her mp into a place of inferiority.
With all of that said, at present the real threat to the balance of power is a Habsburg coalition. Together they could carry this game away something quickly. Three of the six players, aside from those two, have the very real threat of being eaten alive if the Habsburgs wanted to end this now. Of course the time table for it is small & throughout the 1600s the threat will pass as others powers rise in relation to them creating a balance of power. Overall if the game makes it through the 1500s without Spain & Austria running away with it, things will become very interesting with a strong balance of power from the mid-1600s onwords.
France's loose of power was due to the simple fact HG is much better at war than me. I like fighting wars, with HG & KJ especially, since to me it is the whole point of the game. I could have told you before I fought that last war that I was going to loose. HG had a vast treasury from all those -inflation events, & is of course able to beat me when I have leader advantage, better sliders, & fire on him. Simple fact is I was bored & didn't want to waste my last session siting on my hands, sorry TG.
France is not a lost cause though, I pulled down the innovative slider a couple times with events & moved towards free trade to give them some colonist. My suggestion would be to fortify the northern border heavily to keep HG in long sieges & then try to muster up cavalry superiority to drive him off in those nice open planes (If my great leader would not have died of natural causes during the war I might have been able to pull off that plan myself, at one point HGs great general was down to 20k cavalry & he was mercing up to the north). Build up a colonial empire (I had wanted to move east, but with Venice owning India & Spain in South Africa all ready that doesn't seem to feasible) & do as HG said & wait for a better time for France unless you can get together a couple coalitions.
HG is right overall Russia is on parity with Austria for most purposes, & they have greater potential with their natural land rout to East Asia. A coalition of two of her four neighbors can almost always take her down (& that doesn't even count England coming across the channel). Spain too is very powerful, but yet again a coalition of any two of her neighbors (Venice & England count as well since they are both naval) stand a good chance of taking her down, especially once Venice gets TT 3 & England builds up her soon to come naval & colonial advantages. That does not even include the prospect of the Ottomans taking away all her nice vassals someday in the future & forcing her mp into a place of inferiority.
With all of that said, at present the real threat to the balance of power is a Habsburg coalition. Together they could carry this game away something quickly. Three of the six players, aside from those two, have the very real threat of being eaten alive if the Habsburgs wanted to end this now. Of course the time table for it is small & throughout the 1600s the threat will pass as others powers rise in relation to them creating a balance of power. Overall if the game makes it through the 1500s without Spain & Austria running away with it, things will become very interesting with a strong balance of power from the mid-1600s onwords.
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When and if the Emperor's navy has more solid anchorings, it shall be a gift to his Majesty.
