Weird things - old topic, yes, but still...

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I've played the scenario which starts around 1700. I'm playing Russia. After some time Turkey gets into the civil war mode and new nations are born.
Greece and Wallachia.
I invite them hastily into my alliance since they are orthodox by default, easy meat to diploannex.
That's what I thought.
Wallachia has 4 provinces and statereligion is protestant because the capital is in Banat.
Greece has 5 provinces, Smyrna with the CoT and THRACE, the former capital of the ottomans.
The bad thing is that Greece has choosen to get Thrace as a capital and is therefore a muslimic state.
Turkey has lost its capital and got a new one in Iraq.
, but still funny.

And then there is the story how my army (37k infantry) with superior tech and morale lost against 247 (twohundred-fourty-seven individuals) chinese peons.
They didn't even loose a single soldier.
...
I would have hired these guys instantly if I had the chance to do so

 

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Originally posted by Nebukadnezar
And then there is the story how my army (37k infantry) with superior tech and morale lost against 247 (twohundred-fourty-seven individuals) chinese peons.
They didn't even loose a single soldier.
...
I would have hired these guys instantly if I had the chance to do so

Were you attacking uphill? Over a river? From offshore? Did the Chinese guys have a capable general leading them?

If you send an all-cavalry force over a river to attack a mountainous province defended by a high-ranking general, you can easily do a lot worse than losing at odds of 37,000 to 250.

 

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No general, no river, no cavalry, no cannons....
Even the province was russian. I assaulted it some months before.

A funny side note: These 247 belonged to a larger chinese army I defeated some months before. They were the guys who survived our first meeting. They seem to learn quite quickly

 

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The ghost of Genghis Khan walks among us ....

 

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Yes, something like that.
I've played EU for months and sooner or later it had to happen.

 

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I guess they just read their Sunzi.

 

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Re: Re: Weird things - old topic, yes, but still...

Originally posted by Heyesey


Were you attacking uphill? Over a river? From offshore? Did the Chinese guys have a capable general leading them?

If you send an all-cavalry force over a river to attack a mountainous province defended by a high-ranking general, you can easily do a lot worse than losing at odds of 37,000 to 250.

Hey that worked for Alexander the Great!