Originally posted by Armitage
England loose province after province to Scotland
Russia is defeated time and time again by Kazhan
Prussia never develops
Turky dont grov at all
Austria does nothing etc
Are my settings wrong or what?
England I just wrote about, in response to another post.
The Russia thing is just odd: usually in my games they beat the crap out of Kazan and Astrakhan and are knocking on the doors of Siberia by 1520.
You shouldn't expect Prussia to develop: historically it was *Brandenburg* who unified Germany, but the first part of that was annexing Prussia, and for political HRE-related reasons the Elector of Brandenburg became known as the King of Prussia.
Although Brandenburg is still the most likely of all the small German nations to become large and powerful, it's a lot less than 50-50 to do so. Almost inevitably, SOME German state becomes very strong (in my games it's usually Hessen for some odd reason) but pot luck means it's probably a different one each time. For example, in 100 campaigns Brandenburg might become a power 10 times, Saxony, Bavaria and Hannover 5 times each, Hessen, Kleves and all the other one-province states two or three times each, and the remaining times the whole area gets eaten by France, Austria and/or Poland.
The Turk notoriously doesn't do very well unless the human player is controlling him. They either fail to annex the Mamelukes, and stagnate; or, they annex the Mamelukes, thereby become the badboy of the world, get attacked by everybody at once and suffer greatly. Only rarely do they follow the ideal strategy of picking off the Mamelukes and Venice/Hungary in alternate chunks, thereby becoming a serious threat to the whole of Eastern Europe. (The AI is not programmed to adopt this strategy, AFAIK, but sometimes it stumbles on it by accident.)
Austria never does do anything. They just sit there being diplomatic and inheriting the odd country or two. They often score pretty highly on the VP board solely because of their diplomatic achievements: it seems to work for them. If their luck's in, they can also conquer Bohemia and take a chunk of land from Poland, turning them into quite the respectable central power.
