Problem with Franco-Prussian War...

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Hey guys, I'm playing as Prussia, and got sucked into a couple of wars with Russia so things are a little skewed timeline-wise, but essentially, I got the Zollverein dominance event sometime around 1867ish and won that war (vassalized all the little countries, let Austria go w/ force disarm and reparations since my BB was a bit tough), and after finishing that war, about 6 months later the Spanish succession event triggered. I went to war w/ France over it, launch my invasion, and after winning all the 4 battles (Luxembourg (French)+ all my Prussian cores) but having not even had time to finish sieging those territories, it brings up the "Fall of Prussia" event, claiming that somehow I lost a slew of battles (never lost a 1, France lost 4 and I was in the process of occupying that whole region) and forced a farce of a peace on me. So I figure "meh, it screwed up."

So I reload, and BEFORE the spanish succession event fires, I go ahead and declare war since, since it's 1872, I supposedly can just attack, occupy Paris, and win. So I did just that...and to be sure I occupied the entire European area of France.

No event fires. No peace, no Germany, no nothing.

What am I doing wrong? Or is this, in some twisted world, working as designed? HOW?

 

[RELee]

Read this thread and see if it helps you to figure out what may have happened.

Otherwise, I'm not sure.

 

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Wow, thank you alot for posting that. I can't believe that crap-My Prussia has the world's largest army, but a tin can navy, so when, in 1870, France declared colonial war against my ONE colony-Rooktown, I accepted them taking it because I had no way to move troops in force to Africa. I can't believe that after 35 years of spectacular playing it all came down to 4000 Africans growing fruit. That sucks, hard.

 

[RELee]

I won't argue with you; but keep your hopes up and continue playing the vanilla game until you are comfortable with the game mechanics and then take a look at VIP. It's a primarily historically-based mod, but they are really trying to get the events to make sense all along the way. Of course, that's a lot of work. They have only made it to around 1880 or so in their event chains, and only a smaller amount of work has been done for games that may wander away from history, relatively speaking. I think you would like it though. It's definitely a work-in-progress.

 

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I won't argue with you; but keep your hopes up and continue playing the vanilla game until you are comfortable with the game mechanics and then take a look at VIP. It's a primarily historically-based mod, but they are really trying to get the events to make sense all along the way. Of course, that's a lot of work. They have only made it to around 1880 or so in their event chains, and only a smaller amount of work has been done for games that may wander away from history, relatively speaking. I think you would like it though. It's definitely a work-in-progress.

Well I'm still running the southern revolutions mod on it...is VIP another mod on top of that? Sorry, I generally don't mod many games I play, so to find one where it's really a good thing (rather than a whizz-bang cheap thing) is cool. Where can I find more info on it?

 

[RELee]

VIP Download Thread

This will certainly get you started, along with OHgamer's signature.

SR and VIP are not compatible. You will need to have a separate directory for VIP.