Weirdest from my current game: who says the AI can't attack overseas?
Shortly after this picture, England got force-annexed by France (Spain took Middlesex). They then promptly revolted again, but from Brittany, so their capital is now Canterbury and they have only 1BB (instead of 20-30BB when the gangbang started).
What's weird?
- England didn't lose any provinces by defection, they were all conquered in wars (IIRC Wales briefly got independence, but it was from one of the invaders rather than England itself - England would have been too pathetic to annex them).
- The countries that carved up England were in several different alliances, and once or twice fought a war against each other over who got which part of England. Scotland in particular gained a few provinces this way.
- Unlike the usual game where everyone annexes Irish minors except England, in this game it was only England that annexed Irish states, but England then got heavily beaten in Ireland by Aragon and Desmond. Little Desmond even took Gloucestershire!
My best screenshots though are from a much older game as China, which featured the fighting Irish:
Irish Ukraine (5 provs acquired in 3 separate wars, none of it by defection - Ireland was the one doing the DOWing)
Ireland continued to attack countries in the Ukraine area, but with less success, especially when they DOWed Russia, which led to their eventual downfall in the region. But never mind, there's always capturing the Sund and converting the locals to the true faith:
Despite Ireland's relentless aggression without CB and the fact that they never became a major power, Ireland was rarely DOWed, and no-one ever took any territory off them in Ireland proper (though for some reason, the Irish never really tried to take Meath off England or Scotland). Ireland's final disappearance came peacefully in the form of a French diploannexation in the late 17th century. The border used for DAing? Somewhere along the Hudson River, which was originally Lenape territory, until that tribe got conquered by the Irish (the French colonised an area north of there). As a final legacy, they managed to convert Manhattan to a Gaelic Catholic province.
I don't have pics to hand, but I believe Ireland conquered Holstein, Mecklemburg and parts of the Low Countries at other times in the same game. All in all they made around a dozen DOWs of their own accord (ie 'Eire declares war on X').
