The Great 34 Year French-Papal War

[Ralepozozaxe]

Longest war I had was a 56 year long war with Russia as Prussia. Mostly a lot of stackwiping and painful siege after siege through Russian winter, waiting for manpower to recover, then doing it all over again.

I took 360% OE in the peace deal, went through three monarchs, 400,000 manpower (four times), countless numbers of men, and about 400 AE, but it was worth it.

That sounds rad as hell. Your pretty great. Did Prussia survive the aftermath?

 

[marat271]

Little back story. France PU'd and Integrated Castille very very early in the game and Austria broke their alliance with me right before French attacked. Thats one reason why France was so powerful.
This had to be the longest legit war I've ever had. By legit, i mean many battles throughout and huge ones to.




Through pure determination not to give up and give French any concessions and a massive amount of debt.. it took me nearly 25 years before I could turn the tables and go on the offensive.
I would split the war down into 3 'parts'

The first part would be the first 11 or 12 years when all of our allies were involved (France - England, Portugal, Trier, and Denmark) (Pope - Venice, Hesse, Poland, Pomerania, Ulm, and Saxony) in the first part, France was extremely offensive in Italy and pushed me back as far as Florence and Pisa where I was able to hold them there.

The second part of the war was between Years 12-25 where I would call the Stalemate. All our allies leaving the very bloody and pointless war. I was able to push France back to Savoy where the we would see countless battles back and forth and me losing a good amount of them I however did some strategic siege/defending the war goal to keep France from sending the -1 stability peace deals.

The final part of the war in the final 10 years or so, the french lost a major battle and I was able to go on the offensive and take most of southern France, however they came back in full force and took most of it back. I was able to get to Paris and the war looked like it was finally going to turn in my favor until "Bankruptcy Alert!!!!" With Paris in my hands I was able to finally get a white peace with France. But I ask myself at what cost?



Here is a few facts from this war :laugh:
-War started Feb 1669 and lasted till May 1703.
-I went through 4 different Popes during the war!
-A total of 140 battles took place, I would say 80% of them were battles consisting of at least 50k troops on each side.
-Largest battle to take place was 186k French vs 121k Papal troops.
-Unfortunately I lost the majority of the battles but able to keep the war going due to high manpower + merc reinforcement/recovery.
-At one point in the first 10 years France had 63 war score on me and occupied all of northern Italy (Venice was ally-in-war with me)
-I had 163 loans at the end worth a total of 72.9k (I make about 40 ducats per month so that's around 150-200 years to pay off)
-All our allies white peace'd about half way into the war and was down just to vassals and colonies for help.
-Around 20 years into the war, I was able to get Austria as a ally again.. able to call them into war to help. They instantly 'White Peace' due to war length.


I'd like to know if any of you had similar extremely long wars that weren't what I call a waiting game.

I've had PvP wars going on for longer, but not in single-player. But in my experience most 30-year wars take at least 20 years to finish.

But wow, that's an amazing story =) Good job in pushing through it despite your losses. I'd never have expected such an awesome war from a single-player game!

 

[Mafiabrett]

Now, for the OP, you don't have the requirements tp create Kingdom of God or you don't want to? I always wondered if it was worth the trouble.

Nope I never got the chance to do it in this game. I was originally going for the Pope achievement but Ottomans and France were so aggressive and lucky in this game. France pu'd Castille and had all of Iberia by 1550, Ottomans took all of Hungary and southern Poland-Lithuania. I was basically sandwiched between 2 super powers that hated me so i had no choice but to ally Austria and Venice to deter them from attacking most of the game.

 

[Aries666]

No need to loose you're cool. Theirs other things more important then grammer.

Please tell me this was intended

 

[Artyom87]

thats pretty epic... 72k in debt lool. Most ive had was like 15k maybe, but that was with bigger countries like france/prussia/etc