I laugh out loud as I am instantly hit with overextension due to my worthless ruler; I only chose a military chap in order to get the popery act for more missionaries and better converting chance:
And then OMG effing millions of rebellions. This event pops up every ten days or so it seems and in high tax value provinces which Germany is full the rebellions are mega-stacks.
This would give the 30 Years War a run for it's money in the numbers of slain stakes. After doing nothing but killing rebels and being killed by rebels for 6 months or so I realize that I don't have to click on the button immediately and things become more manageable as I only have to deal with the event three or four times a year and that gives me time to move two army stacks into the province, if required.
There was also Nationalist Sentiment to knock the revolt rate up loads in a province. I suspect that this will be a regular event:
and
Anyway, I can't let that stop me expanding, although for a minute as I kept clicking on the event button I thought that the game was over as it was impossible to do anything while killing those huge rebellion stacks every month. So, I declare war on Castille and that brings France, the UK and Naples into the war. I think no problem and then realize that GB has loads of armies in the Netherlands hiding out of sight. More troops are built and armies moved into place. I leave three army groups in the south to handle Naples. It should be enough.
I see that there's an English fleet with quite a good leader approaching the channel; it has about 30 ships of the line in it and I get scared as I've been pulverized by tiny English/British fleets before so I hide in port and then I notice that he's left about 20 ships in port in the Netherlands so I bring both fleets in to blockade this port hoping to kill it when the province falls. My 100 ship fleet should be able to take on 1/5 ships especially bearing in mind some of mine are the new war galleons:
Here's a Napolitan army group moving north:
And so I concentrate on killing off the British armies. I manage to concentrate my forces kind of, some armies get there before others just so I can attack one army and keep it from linking up with another one:
But, the British armies are pretty naff as they don't have any military techs and shortly they're all dead and I can concentrate on sieging France:
And then OMG effing millions of rebellions. This event pops up every ten days or so it seems and in high tax value provinces which Germany is full the rebellions are mega-stacks.
This would give the 30 Years War a run for it's money in the numbers of slain stakes. After doing nothing but killing rebels and being killed by rebels for 6 months or so I realize that I don't have to click on the button immediately and things become more manageable as I only have to deal with the event three or four times a year and that gives me time to move two army stacks into the province, if required.
There was also Nationalist Sentiment to knock the revolt rate up loads in a province. I suspect that this will be a regular event:
and
Anyway, I can't let that stop me expanding, although for a minute as I kept clicking on the event button I thought that the game was over as it was impossible to do anything while killing those huge rebellion stacks every month. So, I declare war on Castille and that brings France, the UK and Naples into the war. I think no problem and then realize that GB has loads of armies in the Netherlands hiding out of sight. More troops are built and armies moved into place. I leave three army groups in the south to handle Naples. It should be enough.
I see that there's an English fleet with quite a good leader approaching the channel; it has about 30 ships of the line in it and I get scared as I've been pulverized by tiny English/British fleets before so I hide in port and then I notice that he's left about 20 ships in port in the Netherlands so I bring both fleets in to blockade this port hoping to kill it when the province falls. My 100 ship fleet should be able to take on 1/5 ships especially bearing in mind some of mine are the new war galleons:
Here's a Napolitan army group moving north:
And so I concentrate on killing off the British armies. I manage to concentrate my forces kind of, some armies get there before others just so I can attack one army and keep it from linking up with another one:
But, the British armies are pretty naff as they don't have any military techs and shortly they're all dead and I can concentrate on sieging France:
