i'm in ! !
i won't be able to catch up on the reading for a few days, but i have started reading...
i won't be able to catch up on the reading for a few days, but i have started reading...
Enewald said:Just annex all your vassals, then kick burgundy.
No worries, he can always kick 'em later after all. Besides, the English rarely gets powerful enough to resist France in the long run, not with the War of the Roses on them and the colonial days a century away at least. Calais isn't all that rich honestly -- it's not like Vlaanderen which would be worth an extended war for.edish1 said:im playing the same game, and you folded to quickly. I asked for both Gascoigne and Calais and got both. My warscore was nothing, i didnt even Siege Calais. Then I restarted, again playing as France, and did the same thing in less than 6 months, but this time i had to siege Calais. NO BRITISH ON CONTINENTAL EUROPE!!!
Which is pretty much what you said above. There's a handy little graph too to help:Second, a new concept is introduced: specialization. Upon choosing
four National Ideas from a certain group, a new idea, previously
inaccessible, becomes available. These Ideas are more powerful than
any other single idea of the same field.
It's -25% of your attrition, not -25% total. Or, to try and make it clearer, it means if you would normally suffer 5% attrition, you'd only suffer 3.75% with this idea...not a huge benefit, but it does add up over time.edish1 said:q1: The manual dictates that the most military loses will come from attrition, and after siegeing some swiss provinces i do see the point. So I choose Improved Foraging as my first NI. Maybe i have misunderstood the benefits, but -25% attrition sounds extremly powerful, especially as france wields great big armies in provinces with supplylimits down to 2, but noone is even metioning it here... Am I misunderstanding something?
My advice: fabricate claims whenever and wherever possible, it's the absolute easiest strategy in the empire. Failing that, absorb gradually and strategically - the emperor is much more willing to ignore a transgression if it's a first offense and you're only taking one province at a time, so if you can, conquer Lubeck and its COT or another rich province instead of trying to annex all of Brandenburg (say) at once. Failing everything else, consider abolishing the empire!Q2: I hate the damned HRE, each province i take is demanded back, with a accumulated 3 reputation hit for refusing. My pround france went from 0 rep, to 8 for 2 louzy provinces, then 2 Framed events, that took me to... 29! Max-rep was 22, then my advisor died and max went to 19. And then the whole world went to get some wine and cheese in Paris, Austria leading the way while whistling happily.... Any tips how to handle the HRE, they just hate my nation of Baguette-wielders. (Just got banished by the HRE... again)
edish1 said:
q1: The manual dictates that the most military loses will come from attrition, and after siegeing some swiss provinces i do see the point. So I choose Improved Foraging as my first NI. Maybe i have misunderstood the benefits, but -25% attrition sounds extremly powerful, especially as france wields great big armies in provinces with supplylimits down to 2, but noone is even metioning it here... Am I misunderstanding something?
Q2: I hate the damned HRE, each province i take is demanded back, with a accumulated 3 reputation hit for refusing. My pround france went from 0 rep, to 8 for 2 louzy provinces, then 2 Framed events, that took me to... 29! Max-rep was 22, then my advisor died and max went to 19. And then the whole world went to get some wine and cheese in Paris, Austria leading the way while whistling happily.... Any tips how to handle the HRE, they just hate my nation of Baguette-wielders. (Just got banished by the HRE... again)
MM2 is actually outstanding so far, I have NO chance whatsoever to accomplice anything...