Military campaigns of some of the finest warriors in the world - AAR thread

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History of player nations

1678 - 1795​

& Maps following​

Dai Viet: Deceased




Mughal Empire:

"January 1, 1700 : The revolters in Fars have defected to the crown of Mughal Empire."


"November 2, 1701 : Mughal Empire (+ Zanj) declared war upon Oman."

"March 30, 1708 : Mughal Empire accepted peace with Oman on the following terms : Oman pays 71$ in indemnities.


"January 6, 1766 : Mughal Empire (+ Zanj + Bosnia) declared war upon Oman (+ Mameluks)."

"December 20, 1768 : Oman accepted peace with Mughal Empire on the following terms : Oman pays 61$ in indemnities. Lindi to Zanj.

December 1, 1771 : A White Peace was signed between Mameluks and Tunisia and Mughal Empire, Zanj, Bosnia and Crimea."

"July 17, 1786 : Mughal Empire (+ Zanj + Bosnia) declared war upon Oman (+ Mameluks + Tunisa + Algiers)."

"May 26, 1790 : Mameluks accepted peace with Mughal Empire on the following terms : Mughal Empire pays 30$ in indemnities. "



Croatia:

"April 25, 1695 : Austria declared war upon Croatia (+ Spain + Brittany + Portugal + Papal States + Cyprus)."

"March 3, 1696 : Austria accepted peace with Spain on the following terms : Istria to Austria, Micmac to Austria & Tirol to Austria. "

"May 12, 1695 : France declared war upon Brittany (+ Croatia + Spain + Portugal + Papal States + Cyprus."

"September 19, 1696 : France accepted peace with Spain on the following terms : Spain (+ alliance) pays 210$ in indemnities

"June 27, 1697 : Croatia (+ Spain + Portugal + Brittany + Papal States + Cyprus declared war upon Ottoman Empire (+ Crimea)."

October 9, 1699 : Ottoman Empire accepted peace with Croatia on the following terms : Ottoman Empire pays 18$ in indemnities. Bulgaria to Croatia. "


"December 6, 1700 : Cyprus (+ Croatia + Spain + Portugal + Brittany + Papal States) declared war Georgia"


"November 5, 1701 : Austria declared war upon Croatia (+ Spain + Portugal + Papal States + Brittany + Cyprus."

"August 3, 1703 : Austria accepted peace with Spain on the following terms : Mantua to Austria. "


"March 11, 1705 : Spain accepted peace with Georgia on the following terms : Georgia pays 200$ in indemnities.

"August 2, 1706 : Croatia accepted peace with Crimea on the following terms : Crimea pays 145$ in indemnities.

"September 22, 1711 : Croatia became Vassals of Spain."


"April 15, 1712 : France declared war upon Brittany (+ Croatia + Spain + Papal States + Cyprus."

"September 28, 1715 : France accepted peace with Spain (+ alliance) on the following terms : Spain pays 88$ in indemnities.


"May 2, 1718 : Sweden (+ Croatia + Spain + Papal States) declared war upon Denmark (+ England + Netherlands +Luxembourgh ."

"September 14, 1719 : England accepted peace with Spain (+ alliance on the following terms : Guadeloupe to England, St. Martin to England, St. Thomas to England & Wales to England. "

"March 29, 1723 : Spain annexed Croatia."

Croatia: Deceased



Manchu:

"November 3, 1680 : Malacca accepted peace with Manchu on the following terms : Manchu pays 131$ in indemnities. "

"January 30, 1683 : Manchu had The End of the Ming Dynasty . January 30, 1683 : Manchu annexed China."

"February 20, 1683 : Manchu went with We are China! in The Empire of China. "

Manchu: Deceased




Georgia: 1701 - 1795

"November 6, 1701 : Poland (+Sweden) declared war upon Georgia (+ Russia)."

"March 11, 1705 : Spain accepted peace with Georgia on the following terms : Georgia pays 200$ in indemnities.


"July 2, 1707 : Sweden accepted peace with Russia (+ Georgia) on the following terms : Russia pays 2$ in indemnities. "


"January 7, 1729 : Ottoman Empire (+ Crimea) declared war upon Georgia (+ Nubia)."

"April 10, 1730 : Georgia accepted peace with Ottoman Empire on the following terms : Georgia pays 6$ in indemnities. Kouban to Ottoman Empire. "


"July 3, 1735 : Hellas joined the war on the same side as Georgia and Nubia in their war against Crimea."

"May 22, 1736 : Aden joined the war on the same side as Georgia, Nubia and Hellas in their war against Crimea.

"August 4, 1738 : Georgia accepted peace with Crimea on the following terms : Crimea pays 112$ in indemnities. Kerch to Georgia. "


"January 6, 1742 : Ottoman Empire (+ Crimea + Aden declared war upon Georgia (+ Nubia)."

"May 27, 1742 : Crimea accepted peace with Georgia on the following terms : Full Annexation of Crimea by Georgia"

"March 12, 1743 : Georgia accepted peace with Ottoman Empire on the following terms : Georgia pays 24$ in indemnities. Volgograd to Ottoman Empire. "


"April 19, 1748 : Ottoman Empire (+ Aden) declared war upon Georgia ( + Nubia)."

"November 16, 1758 : Georgia accepted peace with Ottoman Empire on the following terms : Georgia pays 122$ in indemnities. Crimea to Ottoman Empire. "


"December 21, 1768 : Ottoman Empire (+ Aden) declared war upon Georgia (+ Benin)."


"June 1, 1769 : The people of Crimea declared independence from Georgia (+ Benin). Crimea declared war upon Georgia."


"January 9, 1771 : Nubia joined the war on the same side as Ottoman Empire and Aden in their war against Georgia and Benin."


"March 18, 1772 : Crimea accepted peace with Georgia on the following terms : Crimea pays 50$ in indemnities. Kerch to Georgia. "

"May 13, 1775 : Georgia accepted peace with Nubia on the following terms : Nubia pays 34$ in indemnities. "

"May 3, 1779 : Ottoman Empire accepted peace with Georgia on the following terms : Georgia pays 314$ in indemnities. Sochi to Ottoman Empire, Kerch to Ottoman Empire & Kalmuk to Ottoman Empire. "


"June 13, 1788 : Ottoman Empire (+ Aden + Crimea + Nubia) declared war upon Georgia (+ Benin)."

"September 3, 1789 : Georgia accepted peace with Aden on the following terms : Full Annexation of Georgia by Aden"

Georgia: Deceased

I didnt want to show western Europe (France), left it for Emperor_krk

 

[Emperor_krk]

Pity to see all the player nations, except for the really huge Mugnal Empire, annexed. Especially Croatia, in such a shameful (DA) way. Pity all her land went to the BWB anyway...

I shall play my part today, and try to write it tomorrow. Expect it no later than on Sunday. Wish me luck, I've already seen my situation in the savefile, it's pretty... Tough

 

[TeeWee]

I must admit that I too feel especially sorry for Croatia. They had such a great run even after Zrinski and it's really sad to see them simply absorbed into Spain and HAB.

Mughals are still impressive!

Can't wait to see France

 

[Emperor_krk]

Yeah... I've just finished playing. I will write the update tomorrow, though I can't say now when I post it - I've got 179, no less, no more, screenies, after 1h 40min of playing , which will surely take some time to get sorted.
Well.. It proved to be easier than I presumed. I had underestimated Nappy .

'till later, guys.

 

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I sort of knew Georgia would fall, since I left em in a horrible shape! Gah! but Your empires

 

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What I find quite amusing of the whole history is Georgias allies ...


Nubia and Benin!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Of all the possible allies, they choose some of the most useless.

Yeah... I've just finished playing.

huh? that was quick!

I will write the update tomorrow, though I can't say now when I post it - I've got 179, no less, no more, screenies, after 1h 40min of playing , which will surely take some time to get sorted.
Well.. It proved to be easier than I presumed. I had underestimated Nappy .

'till later, guys.

Alright, looking forward to it and seeing this game completed.

 

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Yeah! Benin!? Nubia!? What in the...Surely It is noticeable some Kalmukian took over the throne/General position after Giorgi!

I wonder what they did to the Russia alliance...all that in vain! I payed much to bribe the russian Even too I believe!

 

[Emperor_krk]

So, we've got France for ourselves. How nice. It's always been so damn easy playing France. Lots of cores on rich provinces, swarms of really good leaders, possibilities of colonial imperialism, prospects of diplo-annexing Spain in mid-18th century... Ahh, how bucolic. And now, what we get is a 1795 France. A Napoleon's France. 6-6-6-2's France. One might think there is nothing nicer to play on a night when you are dead bored and just want some fun, conquering half of Europe during the Napoleon's Ambition vanilla scenario.

But this time, it's different. France in 1795 is a vassal to China. A ridiculous idea, one might think, no? But this is just what we are. A small, cut down to central Gaul, satellite state of an Empire from the other side of the Earth. Ok, so perhaps at least what we do have is some decent military? Let's see... LT 22, NT 16. Ok, I've seen the AI fare badly, but... France? I mean, f*****g France?! Well, the economy should explain this. Trade level 4, infra - samewise. But... How? Let's loot at the economic screen... Yeah, some 60$ of income, blah, blah, blah... WHAT? THE? HELL?! 92.5% inflation?! Ridiculousity isn't the right word to explain this. This is worse. Alright, in my early games, some 3-4 years ago, when I didn't know how to do anything with my poor economy, my inflation sometimes skyrocketed till some 150% by 1820. But... This? How could the damn AI ruin such a country like France, damnit?!

Alright. Calm down. We will try to do it, somehow. Our Land Technology is better than the Spanish (18), the overlords of most of northern and southern regions of France proper. This is good, combined with our leaders. Comparison to the Habsburgs looks a bit more unfair (LT 25), but still it seems manageable. If only not for the unimaginably high costs of, like, everything... Waging wars is going to be our main occupation, but it is going to cost a lot... We'll see. Hopefully at least the DP sliders are a bit better... Decentralisation. Narrowmindedness. I have no more questions. Mercantilism - whatever, we're not gonna waste money on sending merchants anywhere but Ile de France anyway. Quality 9, cool, Nappy will be 6-7-6-2, and Davout - 6-7-5-1. Nice. Offensive 4... Whatever. Land 7, well enough, but still 0,05 land morale more wouldn't hurt anyone. One step up. Serfdom 4, good, better morale, bad, higher stabcosts.

Alright, overview done. Let's try to make it fun to read!

Nappy I, or a preservative attempt at unleashing World War 0,9 Beta​

After some 3 or 4 days we get the nice sign, telling us that Nappy awaits us in Manhattan. Yeah... And we are at war with Lenape and some other Native American tribe. I've always been against destroying them, let them be. After signing a White Peace, we take our fleet under Bougainville from some remote Carribean island toward NY, in order to take the future Emperor home. In the meantime we decide to break the vassalage to the Manchu... I mean, China - France won't be slaves to anyone, especially some Asian country half a world away. Just after that we check our relations with the Europeans. They are bad... Except for the Poles and the protestant Sweden and Brandenburg, who incidentally happen to be allied. What? Poland is a vassal of... Sweden? How? Must have been some strange event I don't even remember existed. We join the alliance with Sweden, Poland and Brandenburg - I just feel so unsafe when I have the whole world potentially against myself.

And now... Waiting for the stability to rise from -3 to at least -2, which will take us almost 2 years - not good at all, but what can we do? Looking at our situation, it's not tragic. We've got lots of core territory in the hands of our enemies - Spain, Toulouse, Netherlands, Luxembourg... Good. This means expansion without much BB and stabhits in the early time, and then perhaps a BB war, if we manage well enough. Have I mentioned that until now I have been always avoiding badboy wars? I've never tried to conquer the world, either. My expansion will be quite quick, but not very... large-scaled. Sorry for that - I'm just not that kind of player. Our stability rises eventually in 1797 - we immediately declare war against Spain. Because they seem to be an easy prey with lots of our core territory in the north and south, especially with their low Land Technology.

We've got four armies at our disposal: Nappy's in Poitou, Davout's (6-7-5-1) in Lorraine, and another two in Picardie and Orleanais, ready to attack as soon as possible. The Declaration of War is issued on May 3rd, and we immediately move our troops into enemy territory. By July Franche Comte, Gascogne and Calais fall to our assaults, and by the beginning of 1798 all of the French territory, except for Bretagne, is in our hands. The Spanish offer us some gold at first, then provinces - we reject. There are constant reports of attacks on our colonies - who would care about them? France is in Europe, not in America, damnit!

 

[Emperor_krk]

Our offensive is halted a bit by the poor Toulouse DoWing us in September 1798, however all we need to do is redirect some of our forces into their territory. 'Some' meaning, of course, Nappy's veterans under his personal command- there's now about 15'000 of them left, of which about 14'500 are infantry.

Their provinces fall quickly - in no more than 11 months we've got rid of them, while at the same time advancing slowly across the Pyrenees. After waging the war for more than a year now, we have to recruit some more infantry to assault the fortresses, thankfully never stronger than 10'000 men. The only exceptions are Alsace and Bretagne, which are besieged by our forces in the old-fashioned way...

 

[Novea]

Have Napeleon take revenge on the decadent chinese ! :rofl:

 

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Cool, moving along very fast, "constant reports about attacks on the colonies, who would care" :rofl:

Have Napeleon take revenge on the decadent chinese ! :rofl:

Somehow I would suspect that , but Emperor says "My expansion will be quite quick, but not very... large-scaled. Sorry for that - I'm just not that kind of player".

So perhaps not?

 

[Emperor_krk]

Novea - as Capt. said, no. I was wondering about this, but getting access through some countries in order not to let my fleet transporting troops to China die from attrition would cost too much time and cash. I do know though that it would be cool to give them a beating.

Capt Janszoon - I know it doesn't sound too natural, but... It's kind of my style of play - unless I play Spain, England, or something like that D), I don't really care about colonies - I like to just expand in Europe.

Thanks for reading . Next update - hard to say, but hopefully today in late evening hours .

 

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Shamelessly advertising your aar in here....tut tut

 

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I'm shocked, entering the 19 century with that sprite is new for me and such a low tech in everything is really shocking.

 

[Emperor_krk]

First successes​

After taking all of Toulousian soil, except for their capital, we return to our campaigning against the Spanish. Davout is ordered to besiege Bretagne (medium size fort - we need to fund him with 30 cannons, infantry seems to not be enough...), while Nappy takes Schwyz, and then Piemonte in two quick assaults. I have to recruit some troops for him, as his army's numbers aregoing down quickly. Did I mention the high cost of EVERYTHING? For mere 15k of infantry and some (useless, as it proved) 7k cavalry we paid 471 ducats. Disgusting, really.

But let's not get distracted by such things: Nappy's 18'000 veterans begin a campaign in Italy, swiftly taking Liguria and Emilia. Afterwards, with the circa 22'000 men of reinforcements following right behind them, Nappy's army attacks the 13'000 Spanish force, garrisoned in Florence. We win, but not until the subsequent attack by the Papal States' troops (yeah, allied with Spain) do we notice that what is left of Napoleon's army is some 2'000 men! Without hesitation, we withdraw them, thanking God, Satan and Zaratushtra for their guidance. In Emilia we regoup and from there we continue the march southeastwards, toward Florence. There we destroy the Papal army, and decide to take revenge on the Italian scum. Then, however, we are presented with a peace offer from the Spanish, which after some consideration we accept. Some of our core territory is still in their hands, so attacking them in 5 years won't pose as much of a problem.

Somewhere in the meantime, we were hit by three most player-friendly events: a deflation one, a Gift to the State (400d) and... This:

So. What we have now (August 1800, after the end of the war agains Spain) is a centralised, land-focused state with a strong monarch. Good. We take a look around... And we smile, because we see a weak, undefended state called Netherlands to our north. What's more, they are allied to the English across the Channel! Magnificent. Y'know, why don't we try to recreate as much as we can from the Roman Empire of the 1st century? This would mean a lot of conquests, but why not a have at least a go at that? Thus, what we do is move our troops to the north, in order to quickly destroy the Dutch, and our fleet under Villeneuve to Normandy - the English fleet is too powerful for us, so we hope that they give us enough time at some point to transport Nappy to Britain. On March 12, 1801, we issue the declaration of war against Netherlands - all their allies (Luxembourg - dreadful! , England, Portugal and Denmark) join the fray. Therefore, we ask our allies for the same, and thankfully, only the cowardly Swedes dishonour (where's the Viking blood, curse you!)

Soon enough Napoleon takes Zeeland, Davout besieges Flandern, and another guy tries to assault Luxembourg. Three times. And yet he fails. We send there Nappy, in order to make things go faster, and he doesn't disappoint us (I can't imagine him disappointing anyone, at least war-wise ). Annexation of Luxembourg follows (6 BB - who cares?), as Nappy is redirected to Normandie, to try to board the ships stationed there. We try to find a moment when there's no or little English, Danish or Portuguese ships running around (unfortunately, it's rare), and our first attempt at departing fails miserably. A month later, however, we manage to not onlymove our ships out of port, we also steal some Danish rutters, destroying their small fleet quickly. We get just enough time to transport Napoleon and his 22'000 men across the Le Manche Channel, when our fleet is defeated easily by a Portuguese one, thus cutting Nappy from Marmont's reinforcements waiting across the Channel.

The first attempt at taking the so-called "English" Channel​

 

[Emperor_krk]

The invasion of Britain is commenced, with our swift assaults on Kent and Wessex. From there we march on London and it's puny 4'000-men-strong defence. Phew. With London in our hands and Amsterdam falling into them soon after, we demand the two southernmost English provinces and vassalisation in the peace treaty. This, however, is rejected, adding to our irritation. What's more, we can't access the English territories to the north, because those ridiculous Habsburgs had somehow taken Lincoln and Bristol later! Our fleet is permanently stuck in France, which again disables transporting Nappy to the north. Therefore, we take Flandern from the Dutch (we want them to have our core, Zeeland, for later) and the two (gasp) provinces we control from the English. Until later, guys.

Alright. We have to wait a bit more now. The truce with Spain lasts until September 1805, which binds our hands until then. And no, I'm not suicidal, I won't attack the Habsburgs without a CB and with them a CRT level above me. Haven't we forgotten about something? But of course we have! It's the tiny nation of Toulouse in the south! The truce has already gone away and it seems they are doing everything not to get noticed by Nappy's greedy eyes. Sorry guys, it's too late!

The war lasts about 1 month, with Napoleon declaring it in the beginning of December 1804, and annexing Toulouse in mid-January of the next year. Our reputation rises up to 17,3 because of that, but we won't cry seeing this. We wait until September, and 16 days after the end of the truce (we won't let them say we are warring all the time!) we declare the second war against Spain. Once again, we decline help from Poland and Brandenburg - they won't be needed at all. October of 1806 sees us having captured Languedoc, Savoie, Switzerland, Alsace, Gerona, Catalonia and Cornwall from the Spanish (yeah, they have land even in Britain), and the first (the one against Papal States 6 years ago was a strategic withdrawal, if you really need to know) and only defeat of Napoleon of all his life. This, however, doesn't stop the man from taking Piemonte and Liguria from the enemy, with another army being close to taking Madrid in Spain.

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End of part two. Hope you like the way I write... I don't have the imagination to come up with stories and all. I'd rather play and comment on what I play. Enjoy, comment!
And about that Lancashire from one of the pics - I have actually forgotten that I had had that province, and realised only after the war that I could have attacked the English from there instead of this stupid fighting for the Channel (and losing one third of the fleet in the meantime o).

 

[TeeWee]

Great job! Don't worry about your style, one of the great things about this AAR is the many different styles.

Anyway, it was shocking to see the starting position of France. A vassal of China, is that the legacy of the heartbreaking search of Nurhachi? A long legacy then, almost 200 years after he has passed away.

Militarily, you're doing a great job. How far away are you from triggering BB wars? Maybe, you should try and get a little province in Asia and trigger a BB war then: that way you can go and repay China for past humiliations

 

[Emperor_krk]

Shortynds - on the other hand, everybody around (well.... Except for the Habsburgs ) has about the same tech levels, and nobody has anywhere as good leaders as I do, no?

Capt Janszoon - anything wrong about this?

TeeWee - As I wrote before, it's too late - I've finished playing two days ago already and I can't do anything like this .

 

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Cool, progessing well I see, but, but, but....no breaking peace treaties? waiting 5 years? no declarations without cb's?

Same as Teewee says, It great to see different AAR's and indeed, playing styles.

anything wrong about this?

hmmm, bah, ok, let the flood gates open

 

[Emperor_krk]

Spain again... And more.​

Davout's troops in the north, on the British Isle, are transported across the sea to Lancashire, where combined Papal, Spanish and St John's armies besiege the province. The odds were against them - their army was slightly bigger than mine, and it's me who was doing the landfall, but it was me just as well who has Davout in the army . Despite such favourable conditions, we fail - the marshal was defeated and left with some 3'000 troops. What's more (and worse), as the men were slowly withdrawing, the fleet awaiting off the shore got engaged in a naval battle. Admiral Bougainville won the battle, but had to sail away from the shore - leaving Davout and his men to be massacred by the puruing Spanish cavalry.

When we get to know about this, our fury is great. But we don't have time for cursing, as in the south Napoleon, with some 30'000 men, travels southwards through the Italian Peninsula, while another army besieges the provinces in Iberia. After a long campaign, lasting for almost two years, we receive a peace proposal from the Papal States, a proposal we accept. What is left for us to resolve is the Spanish case - unfortunately, we are not given the chance to do so, as the superior technologically Austria attacks us two weaks after the signing of peace treaty with the Pope - on 27 April, 1810. We quickly assault the remaining Spanish-Italian provinces and ask for four of them in return for peace - let's not forget that we want to have Italia for our new Roman Empire! - and Spain accepts.

Napoleon marches to the north, in order to capture the Habsburg-occupied Italian provinces of Lombardia and Mantua - unfortunately, in the latter the Emperor is caught by an Austrian 20'000 men strong all-cavalry army, from which he has to withdraw (don't confuse with 'flee'!), and which is easily defeated 5 months later, despite numerical odds being against them. At the same time, an army under gerenal Bessieres is dispatched to Britain, where the Austrians hold two provinces, defended by some 20'000 troops - quite easily defeated, and after a few months and assaults, both cities (Bristol and Lincoln) fall to us. The same fate was awaiting the southernmost Habsburg provinces - Lombardia, Mantua and Tirol, which all fell to Napoleon's undefeatable (sic) army. After that, Napoleon with his 20'000 infantry (no cannons or cavalry left, and I couldn't afford the recruitment of anything but infantry) moved forward to Vienna, and laid siege to its large fortress. Seeing this, the Habsburgs sent an emissary, asking for peace in return for Lincoln, Bristol and Lombardia - which we gladly accepted, as we feared that we wouldn't be able to afford a much longer war, and the territories we took were enough to satisfy our plan of taking as much of Britannia, Italia and Gallia as we could.

We spent some time regathering the troops from Austria and recruiting more, in order to start another war against the Netherlands, who never ceased to be in an alliance with England. Napoleon quickly assaulted the Dutch provinces, and the war ended for Netherlands (giving us Zeeland) after 7 months. Then however, the situation didn't look too good for France - Our 20'000 army under MacDonald (4-5-4) in Britain had been harassed by smaller English, Portuguese and Danish forces, reducing it to some 5'000 men, and our fleet (now only 13 warships and 2 transports without a leader), stationed in Normandie is constantly blockaded by our opponents' superior navies, disabling us from reinforcing the regiment in Britain, which could only take London and York from the English. We've of course lost the accursed Lancashire to the Portuguese. They, somehow, accepted a white peace after a while. Soon we managed to capture Northumberland from the English with MacDonald's army (reinforced by the recruited 1'000 at a time small forces from our English provinces). The same, after some time, was done with Wales and Midlands - tha latter only after getting Napoleon across the Channel by our new, mostly galley, navy.