MahoTsukai - ask and you shall receive.
The First Anglo-Russian War:
After annexing China, I was sure the British would DOW me. I was a distant 2nd in military power and accumulated well over 100 BB. Then…nothing. A day went by, then a week, then a month, then a year. Still nothing. Victoria’s advisors must be either asleep or utterly fearful of the Russian War machine
I check the save game file to ensure Very hard/Furious setting is on, it is. Well, I’m not going to sit around idly when there is a map to paint puke green. The basic formula I will use through the whole game I will outline here:
Occupation policies: All clerks/craftsman are immediately recruited into the army unless the resource is something valuable like sulpher or iron in which case they become laborers. Unproductive enlightened liberals fermenting dissent amongst the peasantry are a Tsar’s worst nightmare. All RGOs are expanded to accommodate unemployed laborers and rails are immediately laid in all worthwhile province. In the case of China, 40+ silk RGOs all qualify
. Enough 90K Farmers are sent to military academies so as I always have at least 500 leadership (not easy – see army building policy below). One 10K garrison is left to encourage the subjugated to see the wisdom of toiling for the Tsar and to crush any rebellious subjects.
Speaking of which, this is a task nearly as difficult as conquering China. Check out this typical 10 days of occupation duty:
"September 27, 1859 : The people of Yan'an are revolting!"
"October 1, 1859 : Corruption afflicts Tver."
"October 1, 1859 : The corruption in Rzhev has been purged."
"October 1, 1859 : The people of Yumen are revolting!"
"October 2, 1859 : The people of Kaifeng are revolting!"
"October 2, 1859 : The people of Wanxian are revolting!"
"October 3, 1859 : The people of Qiqihar are revolting!"
"October 3, 1859 : The people of Qingdao are revolting!"
"October 4, 1859 : The people of Weixian are revolting!"
"October 4, 1859 : We are attacked by hostile armies of Persia in Minab."
"October 5, 1859 : The ingrates of Ahwaz are taking up arms against us!"
"October 6, 1859 : We won a battle against Rebel Scum in Wuchang."
"October 7, 1859 : The people of Shaowu are revolting!"
It got so bad, I had to deactivate the revolt message-box! If I wasn’t too lazy I would have removed the sound-file as well. I now hear that damn noise in my sleep. Many a Russian occupation division was annihilated by rebel hordes.
I plan on riding the foreign tariffs/RGOs money train to finance my war machine. The requisite industries are already in place in Mother Russia and will be expanded when the need arises, not as a money making venture. I was making little less than $100/day during the Sino-Russian war. After annexation and occupation policies are put into effect:
Building an invincible army:
The 200,000 spearhead will become standardized. The 20 divisions will comprise of 10 Guards, 5 Engineers, and 5 (native) artillery. Natives are necessary for artillery because of the exorbitant upkeep costs. I will hold off building artillery until “Iron Breech Artillery” is discovered because they aren’t cost-effective until then. No vanilla divisions, no regular brigades, no cavalry, no more natives (the 300 I originally built will solely be used as occupation/garrison troops) – with that type of cash flow there is no reason not to build anything but elite troops. Under *
no* circumstances will I ever divide up these 20 division armies. Anything less than a full concentration of force at the
Shwerpunkt (a decisive point) is criminal generalship. Let the enemy send his army through a gap and occupy one of your provinces. That force is but an annoyance which will be annihilated (no survivors) when his supply lines are cut off. Again, recruitment should always be done in one massive batch to ensure enough cultures and POPs are left around for further army construction:
Consolidation of Central Asia:
I’m not sure why the Brits dont DOW or the Austrians and Prussians did not walk across my undefended border, but I’m not going to sit around waiting for them. It’s possible that the annexation of China by Russian led Turkenians is such an incredulous proposition that the British and the French refuse to recognize reality
. Think I’m joking?
"February 1, 1856 : France went with Declare war on China! in Murder of a French Chaplain."
"October 9, 1856 : United Kingdom went with Declare War in The Arrow Incident."
:rofl: Yeah, show those Chinese whose boss
Perhaps I’m just below the threshold the arcane BB calculation Paradox has set up so I will hold off on Annam and Siam - which I’d love to annex before the British or French – because I’m not prepared to fight BB wars. Instead the Dinkystans of Central Asia are targeted. One by one they fall like wheat to the Russian scythe:
"July 21, 1855 : Kokand is now a part of our nation!"
"April 11, 1856 : Bukkhara is now a part of our nation!"
"October 3, 1856 : Kashmir is now a part of our nation!"
November 24, 1856 : Ladakh is now a part of our nation!"
"June 23, 1857 : Afghanistan is now a part of our nation!"
"February 17, 1858 : Tibet is now a part of our nation!"
The only problem with these annexations is it kills your prestige. Somehow the British illegitimately take over #1 position despite my having become Tsar of all Slavs, conquered China, and placed an utter fear into the whole world - something Websters should consider for the definition of "farce" in their next edition of the English dictionary.
Central Asia
Well, if Victoria is going to sit by and allow me to annex the whole world, then I won’t hold back. Persia with its 40 provinces is next.
"October 23, 1859 : Persia is now a part of our nation!"
By 1860, I have enough guard divisions and transports to contemplate transcontinental adventures. One of my initial concerns was the huge sparsely populated South American nations so I best get started here. Uruguay and its annexable three provinces will serve as an excellent base of operations. It is allied with Paraguay and Brazil. I did not want to fight Brazil yet as I can only transport 2 spearheads at once and it will take a long time to accumulate the forces necessary to smash them in a quick war while keeping war exhaustion down. Hoping they will dishonor their alliance in the face of the mean green Russian war machine, I DOW Uruguay on 21 April, 1860. Paraguay dishonors but Brazil does not
My plans almost immediately go awry when I get this rude message-box:
"May 19, 1860 : United Kingdom declared war upon us!"
The bitch Victoria picks now?!?!
Great, all my elite troops are either in a South American war or heading there. I do have some troops 6000 miles away deterring the German powers. Complacency has got the best of me as only ½ strengthed native divisions are anywhere near the Indian-Russian border. British troops immediately walk across our porous frontier and annihilate my border forces
This does not help the Uruguaians - “July 11, 1860 : Uruguay is now a part of our nation!"
For some reason, I get an error submitting this so I'll have to split this into 2 posts.