Hi,
In my current France game, I was fighting a very pesky GB and the Ottomans in a war. GB had a huge Thirteen Colonies (like bigger than their size when they declared Independence) and I was worried about British influence gaining anymore. My strategy was to let PLC/Russia beat up the Ottomans with two of my stacks to guide them, whilst I would focus my attention on having a full occupation and naval blockade of GB until their war exhaustion hit 20 and the Thirteen Colonies would declare independence.
That happened. The war was a huge success. We cut the Ottomans down to size and ate the bottom half of GB. Thirteen Colonies (now Florida) then declared Independence and I funded them.
The problem was, I unleashed a beast. They instantly had the third biggest army in the game (behind me and Russia) and rivalled me. They started attacking my colonial nations in Mexico, Louisiana and California. I was unable to enforce a peace because frankly, I wouldn't have won. So I just kept growing in Europe till they could no longer rival me. After that, we became allies and I thought that was that.
The problem is, they still keep attacking my colonial provinces to the point I'll lose the Merchants. There's almost nothing left. I cannot even enforce peace now because we are Allied/RM'd. If they are directly attacking my colonies it should be an attack on me. I don't think it makes much sense that they can totally wipe my presence in the Americas right and I can't even respond because we're allied or in a truce.
Strategically, I now know that I shouldn't have let them grow any bigger than when they first got independence. I also realise I should have let my PU Castile do more colonising before I integrated them. But...I still think this is an aspect of the game that doesn't work. With the prospect of losing all my colonial merchants and presence in the Americas, I would 100% go to war however a drain of resources but I can't because of the alliance/RM/truce.
In my current France game, I was fighting a very pesky GB and the Ottomans in a war. GB had a huge Thirteen Colonies (like bigger than their size when they declared Independence) and I was worried about British influence gaining anymore. My strategy was to let PLC/Russia beat up the Ottomans with two of my stacks to guide them, whilst I would focus my attention on having a full occupation and naval blockade of GB until their war exhaustion hit 20 and the Thirteen Colonies would declare independence.
That happened. The war was a huge success. We cut the Ottomans down to size and ate the bottom half of GB. Thirteen Colonies (now Florida) then declared Independence and I funded them.
The problem was, I unleashed a beast. They instantly had the third biggest army in the game (behind me and Russia) and rivalled me. They started attacking my colonial nations in Mexico, Louisiana and California. I was unable to enforce a peace because frankly, I wouldn't have won. So I just kept growing in Europe till they could no longer rival me. After that, we became allies and I thought that was that.
The problem is, they still keep attacking my colonial provinces to the point I'll lose the Merchants. There's almost nothing left. I cannot even enforce peace now because we are Allied/RM'd. If they are directly attacking my colonies it should be an attack on me. I don't think it makes much sense that they can totally wipe my presence in the Americas right and I can't even respond because we're allied or in a truce.
Strategically, I now know that I shouldn't have let them grow any bigger than when they first got independence. I also realise I should have let my PU Castile do more colonising before I integrated them. But...I still think this is an aspect of the game that doesn't work. With the prospect of losing all my colonial merchants and presence in the Americas, I would 100% go to war however a drain of resources but I can't because of the alliance/RM/truce.
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