Drew is actually one of the best players around, in EU2 at lest. Also all players are better than the AI, and you're quite lucky that we bothered to try and find you one, especially as you didn't bother to actually say that you couldn't be here.
The simple fact is that he underestimated the political situation, by continuing the war with switzerland even when both Germany (110 mil, 850 industry) and France (600ish industry, 150 mil) told him to WP them. Russia seemed to be very interested to jump on in, but they never fought a single Austrian, only swooped in and occupied Hungary.
France had DoWed earlier than I because I wasn't as ready as they were. They were doing well, but Drew knowing I would join had kept 60-70 divisons along the German border. At first Germany didn't take much ground, Austria's terrain proved to be quite a challenge. However after a few months many of my troops were either east of Berlin, or southwest of Karlsbad. The months long battle of Karlsbad where I had quite a numerical superiority to offset my efficency was ended by 35 extra Austrian divisons being being reinforced there, leaving me outnumbered 3 to 1.
My troops retreated west and southwest, leaving a free series of provinces between Saxony and Berlin. Drew pushed forward before I could gather my Silesian armies and we meet on the outskirts of Berlin in a battle of 700k. At the same time there was a similar sized battle in a province of Saxony. We were relatively even matched, but 2 months of attrition on Drew's part meant I soon had almost a 3 to 1 superiority, and finally I was able to annilhate both 30 or 35 odd divisonal armies. Also around this time France had just won the battle of Milano, so together we destroyed 90% of the Austrian army in that month or so. I think Drew was having retreat bug problems, which led to the annilhations. I also had this problem in Karlsbad.
You may say that he did really badly, but the fact was that he had war on all his sides, so that in itself is quite a distraction and can be a factor of it. As you can see, he had 3 major battles going on at the same time, along with the retreat bug which probably stopped him from being able to pull back.
The simple fact is that he underestimated the political situation, by continuing the war with switzerland even when both Germany (110 mil, 850 industry) and France (600ish industry, 150 mil) told him to WP them. Russia seemed to be very interested to jump on in, but they never fought a single Austrian, only swooped in and occupied Hungary.
France had DoWed earlier than I because I wasn't as ready as they were. They were doing well, but Drew knowing I would join had kept 60-70 divisons along the German border. At first Germany didn't take much ground, Austria's terrain proved to be quite a challenge. However after a few months many of my troops were either east of Berlin, or southwest of Karlsbad. The months long battle of Karlsbad where I had quite a numerical superiority to offset my efficency was ended by 35 extra Austrian divisons being being reinforced there, leaving me outnumbered 3 to 1.
My troops retreated west and southwest, leaving a free series of provinces between Saxony and Berlin. Drew pushed forward before I could gather my Silesian armies and we meet on the outskirts of Berlin in a battle of 700k. At the same time there was a similar sized battle in a province of Saxony. We were relatively even matched, but 2 months of attrition on Drew's part meant I soon had almost a 3 to 1 superiority, and finally I was able to annilhate both 30 or 35 odd divisonal armies. Also around this time France had just won the battle of Milano, so together we destroyed 90% of the Austrian army in that month or so. I think Drew was having retreat bug problems, which led to the annilhations. I also had this problem in Karlsbad.
You may say that he did really badly, but the fact was that he had war on all his sides, so that in itself is quite a distraction and can be a factor of it. As you can see, he had 3 major battles going on at the same time, along with the retreat bug which probably stopped him from being able to pull back.
At least not if you intend to continue playing.
