Europe domination as England v1.5

[pkderek]

A lot of times beating down lesser members makes them leave. Also giving some concessions back also makes them leave (for example releasing Cornwall caused everyone to leave my England game). I'm not sure why but if they want to cost me ~120 Admin Points (reconquest them since nobody will ally an OPM on the British Isles anyway) to keep my PU with a blobbed Naples, so be it.

 

[Great One]

The coalition mechanic really needs to be fixed. When a player beats down a coalition, the result should be increased spoils of war, not an arbitrary brick wall which limits both expansion and fun (it is a game after all). It is fun to face increased risk due to AE in the form of coalitions, but the end result of this should be that the player can relish in the victory. Losers who are part of a coalition should have the AE reset to 0 and the player should be able to extort concessions from them which are equal to (or perhaps slightly better than) what would be possible in a normal war.

To make a shorter statement: there should be a reward for winning a war against a coalition!

 

[XELANAMYT]

If AE in northern Europe is too high head into the Medi and expand there while AE cools of else where. If you wanna be expanding non stop you basically have to move your armies around multiple areas.

Doesn't that mean that nations there will start joining the coalition too, therefore before long I will have all fronts in a coalition against me?

 

[Alblaka]

Hmmm, any tips on how to win the HYW? Just tried, but with equal leaders, no terrain penality and a slight surplus of troops I lost vs French in just 5 days (Aka, they wiped my combined armies+8k mercs) Probably dice badluck.

 

[BobbyDylan]

Hmmm, any tips on how to win the HYW? Just tried, but with equal leaders, no terrain penality and a slight surplus of troops I lost vs French in just 5 days (Aka, they wiped my combined armies+8k mercs) Probably dice badluck.

It seems a lot harder now that you can't call in Portugal for help. Also, the English armies seem to do 1/2 the damage the french do. The only way I manged to hurt France ehough lately is by sea raids of 14 regiments on stack of about 3-6 regiments. And I still sometimes lose loads of troops.

 

[Agius]

It seems a lot harder now that you can't call in Portugal for help. Also, the English armies seem to do 1/2 the damage the french do. The only way I manged to hurt France ehough lately is by sea raids of 14 regiments on stack of about 3-6 regiments. And I still sometimes lose loads of troops.

I assume you cant call to arms portugal + castile when declearing vasal war with Scotland? This is how I get them to HYW, easy win then.

 

[MadDjinn]

on the HYW --

keep in mind that you can now see the leaders of the french armies (and where they are). Never fight the 4/4/x/x french general until you either have a 3:1 ratio or have reduced your war exhaustion (and increased theirs) to the point where you actually have a morale advantage. They have better traditions, so they'll maintain higher morale with excess war exhaustion better than you will.

Otherwise the standard opening of getting the 18 regiments off of the continent and returning after having 19 cogs does work. Guerrilla tactics to trim them down, then a double landing in Caux/Normandy to start doing real damage. When you can manage to win 1-2 major fights, start sieging Paris.