So there was a large war today, in which the Mongol Khanate, Punjab, Persia, Bavaria, and Malaya attacked Tibet, Kongo, Ethiopia and Tripoli. Fighting went largely against us on land although there were a number of bright spots on sea (which was basically a one-on-one Ethiopia vs Malaya). Unfortunately, the naval victories did not compensate for the land losses.
Ethiopia evacuated Arabia as soon as the Malayan fleet entered the war (not wanting to be cut off across the straits), and did its major fighting vs Malaya, land and naval. Mostly naval. Here are the major battles (plus a couple land ones in Africa vs a Malayan landing):
Gulf of Suez, Ethiopia loses 44 ships.
Gulf of Suez II, Malaya loses 89 ships
Bab el Mendeb, Malaya loses 101 ships
Bab el Mendeb II, Malaya loses 124 ships
Red Sea, Malaya loses 115 ships
Red Sea II, Ethiopia loses 48 ships
Massawa, Malaya lands troops to force low-morale ships out of harbor, which are quickly defeated (7k casualties each side).
Red Sea III, Malaya loses 3 ships and Ethiopia loses 69
Bab el Mandeb III, Ethiopia loses 13 ships
Taka, retreating Malayan army wiped (-11k)
Several of the major naval battles were part of what was really a big running battle, in which one person would lose a fleet, then send a new fleet in to attack the depleted victorious fleet... etc, since stacking penalties prevent massing huge navies all together for a single decisive battle. I stackwiped four Malayan fleets, and suffered no such myself, but a number of my stacks were very depleted by the end of the war (one navy that started at 90 ships had 30-some left, and another that started at around 25 had 6 remaining).
In sum, therefore, major naval battles cost Ethiopia 174 warships and Malaya 432. Unfortunately, at the end of the war he still had more ships, and due to Persia and Bavaria my WE was very high.
Currently Ethiopia fields 417 warships and Malaya 604.
As a side note, damn all interface bugs. Did they appear in the new patch, or did I just not notice them before? The inability to click-select the right navies on the map unless zoomed in so far as to lose all situational awareness was extremely annoying and is what cost me the 69 ships in that last battle, when I sent the wrong stack in to fight
Persia and Malaya attacked Africans...
Have I missed anything?
Well, you missed most of the alliance attacking us. In addition to Persia and Malaya there were Bavaria, Punjab, and the Mongol Khanate). But fear not for Africa: we had Tibet on our side! (and more fearsomely, Russian guarantees).