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In Ethiopia there is a new and terrible curse: "may your son be sent to the French front".

All that blood spilt will be repaid ten times over. Tremble, Polish and Prussian scoundrels. Your days are numbered.
 
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The highlight of the day has definitely been the Battle of Limousin and, most of all, the British grand army, daringly attacking the Commonwealth armies before they could reinforce the battle, defeating in detail several of these reinforcing armies before turning themselves to reinforce the Franco-Ethiopian lines. When both sides were reduced to an artillery gunfight, and as morale wavered, the British infantry charged to save the day.

It was no decisive victory for the allies failed to capitalise on this great victory, with more than one battle like it being fought afterwards to an allied loss, indeed the 2nd Limousin was a rather sad defeat of the allied forces in such auspicious a battlefield. Their failure was to, unlike the first battle, commit all forces without cutting the Prussian line of reinforcements.

Still the Prussian state was so decimated by the sheer magnitude of these battles, whether resounding defeats or costly battles, that the allies were in the end victorious, and that is what matters.
 
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I know, still i do not think you deserve a trophy. You have been less involved in this game than any other player -except Castille i think.
I can accept your contribution to the war, but still, in my point of view, especially after the mughals trophy, i am more keen on seeing people of high involvement on the top three.

I'm not sure what you're expecting him to do, but Johan has played the ur-Britannia game every EU multiplayer England wishes they could. He kept the useful Normandy land out of France's hands, expanded into Holland and North Sea Scandinavia in order to dominate his node. He's got a fleet nobody can come close to matching, and uses it to pirate, plunder and put fear into almost every conflict through his ability to just deny the waves to whoever he pleases. Oh, and he trained up a crack army the match (man for man, if not in numbers) of any other human player. He obviously works the meta-politics as hard (if not always as subtly) as Wiz, so I'm not sure how anyone can claim he's not going to earn whatever place he ends up getting.
 
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For what it is worth my nominations for the trophies.


Administrative to Portugal

Diplomatic to Ethiopia

Military to Prussia

edit: I wrote that on my phone. My explanation:


Portugal because it is really hard to become a relevant power as Portugal. They had a unique strategy which makes a lot of countries dependent on him and I feel like he definately was a deciding factor in the last war where he sponsored endless amounts of mercs. I'm actually hoping he will be turning on someone, go for his victory cards and just pay people to do his dirty work.


Diplomatic to Ethiopia. Managed to secure good deals from the start. I don't think his nation ever was in danger of being partitioned. He picked the winning side for a long time, wisely decided to stay out of the 1st gank of the Ottomans and didn't lose anything in the second war. I trust he can outmanouver one of the few people that are ahead in score. Maybe it would be smart for him by now to actually help Prussia kill France and England?


Military to Prussia. Due to poor diplomatics, he ended up in a lot of bad fights. Yet, he always managed to put up a decent fight, while at war despite some strategic misses. I like how he at least turned his situation around as Austria, secured an alliance with PLC and managed to become Prussia. He doesn't give up easily and needs a collection of nations to be stopped. I also like that he dares to take a chance and attacks. In an environment where the attacker/agressor is usually punished, I like his boldness.
 
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I think it's not fair to keep a trophy from Ming, they were at the mercy of players for most of the game, which is how you should look at it, and then immediately ganked when a human took over. The player brought it back up to top (wasn't there the whole time), and deserves credit for that. I should state, I don't play Ming, I hate them almost as much as France, because I have played Japan, Korea and some Indian nations, and they never seem to explode in my games either.
 
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Military to Prussia. Due to poor diplomatics, he ended up in a lot of bad fights. Yet, he always managed to put up a decent fight, while at war despite some strategic misses. I like how he at least turned his situation around as Austria, secured an alliance with PLC and managed to become Prussia. He doesn't give up easily and needs a collection of nations to be stopped. I also like that he dares to take a chance and attacks. In an environment where the attacker/agressor is usually punished, I like his boldness.

Iam not sure if i can agree with that. You are right, Starnan is a strong and agressiv player who build up a military nation that has no equal and no single opponent can match him. however playerwise i still have to see a military manouver that impresses me. last campaign and this campaign da9l and johan used their armys not only to fight a battle but to flank and deny the enemy reinforcements to join a big battle. everything i saw from starnan so far was how he maximized his combatstats, and pured every single army he had in the big battles even as going as war to go with a stack of doom army from one fort to another in the first coalition war.

granted it may also be just that iam blind or jakes camera wasnt just simply there when starnan did something impressiv, if anything he deserves the admintrophy for his country and portugal deserves the diplo-trophy for not only getting the player to give him the tradeports/power he need but also for staying alive at least until now.
 
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In Ethiopia there is a new and terrible curse: "may your son be sent to the French front".

All that blood spilt will be repaid ten times over. Tremble, Polish and Prussian scoundrels. Your days are numbered.

Me during the war:
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Me after the war:
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Iam not sure if i can agree with that. You are right, Starnan is a strong and agressiv player who build up a military nation that has no equal and no single opponent can match him. however playerwise i still have to see a military manouver that impresses me. last campaign and this campaign da9l and johan used their armys not only to fight a battle but to flank and deny the enemy reinforcements to join a big battle. everything i saw from starnan so far was how he maximized his combatstats, and pured every single army he had in the big battles even as going as war to go with a stack of doom army from one fort to another in the first coalition war.

granted it may also be just that iam blind or jakes camera wasnt just simply there when starnan did something impressiv, if anything he deserves the admintrophy for his country and portugal deserves the diplo-trophy for not only getting the player to give him the tradeports/power he need but also for staying alive at least until now.

I blame Jake.
 
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The highlight of the day has definitely been the Battle of Limousin and, most of all, the British grand army, daringly attacking the Commonwealth armies before they could reinforce the battle, defeating in detail several of these reinforcing armies before turning themselves to reinforce the Franco-Ethiopian lines. When both sides were reduced to an artillery gunfight, and as morale wavered, the British infantry charged to save the day.

Thats what I like the most in eu4 combats. Catching stacks without leaders, blocking reinforcements etc..
 
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Iam not sure if i can agree with that. You are right, Starnan is a strong and agressiv player who build up a military nation that has no equal and no single opponent can match him. however playerwise i still have to see a military manouver that impresses me. last campaign and this campaign da9l and johan used their armys not only to fight a battle but to flank and deny the enemy reinforcements to join a big battle. everything i saw from starnan so far was how he maximized his combatstats, and pured every single army he had in the big battles even as going as war to go with a stack of doom army from one fort to another in the first coalition war.

granted it may also be just that iam blind or jakes camera wasnt just simply there when starnan did something impressiv, if anything he deserves the admintrophy for his country and portugal deserves the diplo-trophy for not only getting the player to give him the tradeports/power he need but also for staying alive at least until now.
I would give Wiz the military trophy based upon his maneuvre ability. In every single major player war that Wiz has participated in, his troops have made a significant impact. Ethiopian troops slowed the progress of the Commonwealth on the Eastern front and denied any opportunity to just run over Groogy. Wiz's forces played the war patiently and when they did strike, they stood toe to toe with the Ottomans against Prussian-Commonwealth forces and they won at least two critical battles that severely bled opposition forces and ensured that the only way for a quick end to that war was petty peace deal spam.

And in this very last war, Ethiopian troops made the difference on the Western front. Where the Ottomans and the Mughals dealt with the east, Wiz ferried his entire army over to France. That was most certainly not a quick and easy trip. His troops stood side by side with France and made sure that the battles waged were as close 1:1 in size as they could get. England may have been The Decider, but Ethiopia was the Meat Grinder. Also, in the middle of all that, he somehow dealt with Hejaz when no one was looking. That bug actually pissed me off as a viewer, distractions like that can't be afforded when total war is afoot (just look at what happened to the Mughals). And yet Hejaz was kicked away before the grand player war was over.

In short, Wiz's massive forces have been where they're needed, when they're needed in order to get the objectives of their wars done. While others have the same full package of quality, quantity and maneuvrability, I think Wiz's unique position in the world and how he's handled it make the difference.
 
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I'm not sure what you're expecting him to do, but Johan has played the ur-Britannia game every EU multiplayer England wishes they could. He kept the useful Normandy land out of France's hands, expanded into Holland and North Sea Scandinavia in order to dominate his node. He's got a fleet nobody can come close to matching, and uses it to pirate, plunder and put fear into almost every conflict through his ability to just deny the waves to whoever he pleases. Oh, and he trained up a crack army the match (man for man, if not in numbers) of any other human player. He obviously works the meta-politics as hard (if not always as subtly) as Wiz, so I'm not sure how anyone can claim he's not going to earn whatever place he ends up getting.

Thank you.

My goal for this game was "not let anyone get hegemony in europe, while getting control over north america", with goal of getting as high a place as possible.

I kept alternating between backing Austria and France from the beginning, but after 150 years, it was far better for me to stick by France until the end.

Its been a great campaign so far, with only 2 powers destroyed in Europe so far, and LOTS of fun wars.

Putting great players like @Da9L , @StarNaN & @Groogy in france, austria & ottomans made for a great game.

While people talk about passiveness of Spain, I'd like to point out that they are stronger than in history here.
 
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I would give Wiz the military trophy based upon his maneuvre ability. In every single major player war that Wiz has participated in, his troops have made a significant impact. Ethiopian troops slowed the progress of the Commonwealth on the Eastern front and denied any opportunity to just run over Groogy. Wiz's forces played the war patiently and when they did strike, they stood toe to toe with the Ottomans against Prussian-Commonwealth forces and they won at least two critical battles that severely bled opposition forces and ensured that the only way for a quick end to that war was petty peace deal spam.

And in this very last war, Ethiopian troops made the difference on the Western front. Where the Ottomans and the Mughals dealt with the east, Wiz ferried his entire army over to France. That was most certainly not a quick and easy trip. His troops stood side by side with France and made sure that the battles waged were as close 1:1 in size as they could get. England may have been The Decider, but Ethiopia was the Meat Grinder. Also, in the middle of all that, he somehow dealt with Hejaz when no one was looking. That bug actually pissed me off as a viewer, distractions like that can't be afforded when total war is afoot (just look at what happened to the Mughals). And yet Hejaz was kicked away before the grand player war was over.

In short, Wiz's massive forces have been where they're needed, when they're needed in order to get the objectives of their wars done. While others have the same full package of quality, quantity and maneuvrability, I think Wiz's unique position in the world and how he's handled it make the difference.

I also did a good deal of the sieging in the Commonwealth, and was constantly ferrying newly built armies from from Egypt to make up for losses. Hejaz was handled by Morocco though.
 
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The plan was actually to have Morocco fight Spain in this war but we couldn't get the opinion up enough for an alliance with France.
 
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No but if Morocco declares a separate war, there would have been several shenanigans the Prussian Alliance could have done to screw us over.