Battle of Metz (and other epic battles)

[Sovetskysoyuz]

Or he was superior concerning artillery and perhaps had a better general.

If many units are backed by artillery they can perhaps slaughter one enemy unit after the other with a quite good kill ratio.

Yeah, I didn't notice the ten brigades of artillery... that might have had something to do with it.

 

[The Wookiee]

He's mobilised, you can see it from the "-" under the brigade count. If he wasn't there would be a number there saying how many brigades were in his pool.

No NGF, wookie? Going straight to full Germany?

Bit of a problem there. Netherlands took eastern Hannover in an expansionist craze. They've annexed Belgium and are allied to Russia. Can't form NGF, not sure if I can even form Germany without taking care of that problem. My main concern right now though is France.

How did you win despite an overall 3:2 numerical disadvantage? Did you have a qualitative advantage over France? Were you able to reinforce more rapidly than them? Or were the dice just very kind?

I was actually fighting an offensive battle, so I had -1 for river crossing and -1 for terrain (I think). But I had a much better leader, a pretty good tech advantage and 6 artillery brigades, 12 guard brigades and 6 engineer brigades total in my standing army (I-VI. Korps).

 

[A_Dane]

don't worry about the russians, in my (failed denmark campaign), i bravely assulted Sweden, even though they were in SoI of Russia (very, very big mistake), i managed to fight off some 160k russians all together, in several battles (they seem very weak?), with my my 66k brave danish troops.

Then they threw in another 100k and i was toast. Shouldn't be a big trouble as Prussia!

 

[Wetew]

don't worry about the russians, in my (failed denmark campaign), i bravely assulted Sweden, even though they were in SoI of Russia (very, very big mistake), i managed to fight off some 160k russians all together, in several battles (they seem very weak?), with my my 66k brave danish troops.

Then they threw in another 100k and i was toast. Shouldn't be a big trouble as Prussia!

Could they have been mobilised farmers? Also, they might have got penalties for terrain, landing, poor generals etc.

 

[The Wookiee]

Short epilogue to a short story: I won the war against France. Eventually formed Germany in 1873.

Here's the world in 1881 (I accidentally Austria)

 

[A_Dane]

Could they have been mobilised farmers? Also, they might have got penalties for terrain, landing, poor generals etc.

Don't think it was farmers, some might have been though, i had some terrain bonuses, but the generals were equal overall. I might have been ahead of them in tech though, as they seem to go heavy on the fleet department (they completely trashed my modern style fleet!)

EDIT: is that you in Crimea?!

 

[The Wookiee]

EDIT: is that you in Crimea?!

Nope, Crimea is held by Ukraine. I do have an exclave however, sandwiched in between Croatia, Austria, Serbia and the Ottomans. It's a single province and I have absolutely no idea how I ended up with it.

A quick side note: Technology seems to have a huge impact. I made quick work of 30-40 something Bohemian-Morovian brigades using just 12 of my own (2 Dragoons, 2 Engineers, 2 Artillery, 3 Infantry, 3 Guards).

 

[A_Dane]

the colours look so much alike XD

And yeah that seems odd, considering that you aquire states not provinces s:

 

[The Wookiee]

I really would like to have a way to demand/sell/offer single provinces. I wanted to grab a lone Dutch province, as it had a sizeable German minority, but no, I would have been forced to go for all of Flanders.

Also, fighting the dutch, I wanted to liberate Belgium. Problem is I could only liberate Belgium in one state (either Flanders or Wallonia, not both). Something for patch 1.x perhaps?

 

[Rabid]

I really would like to have a way to demand/sell/offer single provinces. I wanted to grab a lone Dutch province, as it had a sizeable German minority, but no, I would have been forced to go for all of Flanders.

I actually like this because it forces you to act like the powers of the day; either you put up with small numbers of your national pops outside of your borders or you have tons of non-nationals that come along with them