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[XXLPlakat]

Glory to our new colony, new Sweden!

 

[the_hdk]

Glory to our new colony, new Sweden!

wtf

 

[JuniorD]

What country did you start as? Krakow? Or did you just release poland?

Krakow.

 

[JuniorD]

The Hamburg is great! Seems like it went GP somehow, and then conquered lots of Bavarian/SGF/Austrian lands, of all places

Hamburg somehow alotted a crapload of prestige. Suddenly, German pan nats everywhere.

 

[JuniorD]

Would you care to explain the "Hamburg" and "Saxony" in that screenie?

Alright. Austria collapsed due to German Pan Nats. At the time, the SGC was the greatest power in Germany. So, they joined them. Almost immediately afterwards, Prussia declared war on the SGC and steam rolled them. Had them occupied for 20 years. Due to this, Prussia lost their status as a GP. Hamburg took their place. Somehow, Saxony got a wargoal in and peaced with the SGC early. So, thats their land. However, when Prussia peaced, PAN NATS EVERYWHERE. Then the SGC got annexed by Hamburg.

 

[FMekajiki]

wtf

In PDM, if a Great Power spheres all of Italy, they can create Italy as a satellite. Clearly that's what has happened here

 

[XXLPlakat]

My Cartographer was drunken while I created Italy <.<

 

[Athalcor]

My Cartographer was drunken while I created Italy <.<

or you might have discovered some evil Paradox Interactive plans...

 

[JimboOmega]

I knew the AI had a fetish for big battles and the warscore for battles needs some scaling... but really, this takes the cake:


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In case you can't read/don't want to click, that is over 700,000 Chinese dead, for a warscore of +137.8%. Brilliant work, AI.

The sad thing is... It definitely hasn't won the war for me.

 

[Reqinald]

That is horrific.

How long did that battle last?

 

[Ethan194]

Similar to the total number british casualties of ww1 .

 

[s1234567890m]

sweet jesus
of curiosity did WS go over 100?

 

[Palfouri]

Spain decides to enter the Great Game in a big way.

Also not apparent, China owns Rasht Region in Persia from piggybacking off a Russian war. Of course, Russia never helps its Balkan allies the same way.

Just another great example of the intelligent and prudent Paradox AI at work.

 

[JimboOmega]

sweet jesus
of curiosity did WS go over 100?

WS is capped at 25 from battles. I was at about 31% after that. (with one province captured and most of their coast blockcaded)

That is horrific.

How long did that battle last?

Several months, not sure how many. Long enough that I not only cycled out damaged armies, but they had time to reorganize, receive reinforcements, and march back in to the battle almost fully organized.

What makes me a bit crazy is that they only get 0.9 WE from that. Honestly, I don't care how big China is - with 750k casualties, you'd think people would notice.

Best of all? It happened again the next year. The AI loves that province, but it is -2 from mountains -1 from river, and in this case, an additional -1 from general, so it could barely put a dent into my better equipped forces.

 

[oberstbrooksy]

I knew the AI had a fetish for big battles and the warscore for battles needs some scaling... but really, this takes the cake:


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In case you can't read/don't want to click, that is over 700,000 Chinese dead, for a warscore of +137.8%. Brilliant work, AI.

The sad thing is... It definitely hasn't won the war for me.

CHRIST, thats unreal.

What where your techs for that?

 

[Chamboozer]

I have one which was only slightly more insane.

 

[JimboOmega]

I have one which was only slightly more insane.

What nation IS that, and how did they support.... 3-400 brigades?

CHRIST, thats unreal.

What where your techs for that?[/QUOTE]
I have to admit watching mine happen was half the fun... Watching -5000 killed on the bloodier days (and I think 2k on the least bloody)... Part of the reason that's possible is because my arms tech was only up as high as breech loaders making for a massively wide front...

I also had 3 levels of military tactics, and post-napoleanic thought, but tech wise that was about it. No org techs, no other defense techs. Most of my power was coming from the fact that they were getting a -4 to all their rolls. I also had artillery they didn't, but I had only the basic artillery tech.

Chinese techs are not known, but had to be terrible. It was crazy to watch them march troops into the meat grinder. I kept waiting for the neighboring unoccupied province, Nanning, to be empty, but it never got there, they just kept streaming in. As you can see if you look really closely, I did march on Nanning when they were about to rout, starting a battle just so I can get the surround... But it did not even matter, as most Chinese brigades were routing due to 0 strength, not due to 0 org (only 23k survived).

 

[oberstbrooksy]

What nation IS that, and how did they support.... 3-400 brigades?

I have to admit watching mine happen was half the fun... Watching -5000 killed on the bloodier days (and I think 2k on the least bloody)... Part of the reason that's possible is because my arms tech was only up as high as breech loaders making for a massively wide front...

I also had 3 levels of military tactics, and post-napoleanic thought, but tech wise that was about it. No org techs, no other defense techs. Most of my power was coming from the fact that they were getting a -4 to all their rolls. I also had artillery they didn't, but I had only the basic artillery tech.

Chinese techs are not known, but had to be terrible. It was crazy to watch them march troops into the meat grinder. I kept waiting for the neighboring unoccupied province, Nanning, to be empty, but it never got there, they just kept streaming in. As you can see if you look really closely, I did march on Nanning when they were about to rout, starting a battle just so I can get the surround... But it did not even matter, as most Chinese brigades were routing due to 0 strength, not due to 0 org (only 23k survived).

I would think alot of it would have been irregulars.

But I can't imagine the experience your brigade must have gotten!

 

[Musthavename]

What nation IS that, and how did they support.... 3-400 brigades?

I'd hazard a guess that's Bengal, and furthermore that it's in Divergences. Bengal there starts as one of two civilised nations in India, so if it does well it can quickly become a GP.

 

[JimboOmega]

I would think alot of it would have been irregulars.

But I can't imagine the experience your brigade must have gotten!

Yeah, I forgot to mention that most of my brigades were guards, vs. what were probably irregulars. And yeah, some of them came out with 5 stars of experience (from no starting bonus, even)