Daniel A said:
He-he John. You know I could have smashed you any day the last 50 years in a fair 1 vs 1. I have many times run my eye over your relatively unfortified possessions and smaller armies with much less guns and told myself that they really needed a ruler that took better care of them.
But finally my rightful character won the battle over my gready character and continued with our friendship that we both gained much from.
Well, maybe while I was busy fighting France and the Americans
. I knew you wouldn't backstab me though, because iirc you've never backstabbed anyone in your eu2 career
. I was too conscience stricken to backstab you though also, knowing you would've put me on your list(worse than the list I'm already on).
When you both have close to or over 1000 MP, it no longer really matters, unless the war rages for a very long time. I had few guns during peacetime because guns are expensive to support, and with 1300,000 man standing armies, a full complement of guns gets really expensive to maintain. The plan would always be to build artillary a few months before war if its offensive, or spend a few months after a dow in defensive wars repositioning to use the new cannons. We would've had the same amount of guns- the only difference is you would've been caught off guard thinking I didn't have as many
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The reason I don't fortifiy up very much is that in this era forts don't have a very good survival rate against good leaders. I can handle a few stabhits, them being only about 700D, the same as a month's income. It's much better to keep the 40kD or so I'd have to spend to upgrade all strategic provs to large or better and just invest in stab when I need to. The other upshot of having small forts is that it's much easier to cut off the enemies supply when he invades far into your country, though that's only happened 3-4 times in the 18th century.
