Why Doesn't AI Burgundy Dominate?
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Hm. Is that really so? Is there a confirmation anywhere? :x I normally play with random lucky nations. Have I really been deluded all this time?? >< /facepalm
In my hands-off game, Burgundy lost the first war against France, giving up 4 territories. Then, later, when France was fighting a long, long war against Austria (in Austria no less), Burgundy jumped in and took everything back, plus more. This was France's downfall because they went on to also lose against Austria, and now they're pretty much balkanized.
Burgundy does quite well in most of my games.
And offensive for an AI is great, I think. They assault all the time!
And offensive for an AI is great, I think. They assault all the time!
Defensive is better than offensive for everything siege-related, including assaulting (+1.25 leader siege).
Assaulting has a shock and a fire phase, just like combat. A general's Siege stat only helps while sieging.
Really? Perhaps I've been misinformed, but I've heard in several instances that the fort level reduction bonus of the siege stat applies to assaulting as well.
Upon further research the wiki is quite unclear on the subject.
You can see the switch when assaulting. Often, you'll only make small assault gains the first days, then there is a large timespan of big assault gains, when you switch to Shock phase. Also, try assaulting with and without a 6-shock general. You'll immediately see the difference.
Main problem for early game assaults is low morale and low fire modifier. Usually you run out of morale after 4-7 days, thus forgoing much of the shock phase, dealing very minor casualties.
This is another reason why Military Drill is so powerful for assaulting: It gives you just a few more days, but these days are shock phase days.
This is another reason why Military Drill is so powerful for assaulting: It gives you just a few more days, but these days are shock phase days.
in one of my games Burgundy dominates western europe and western africa 
so sometimes yeah Burgundy dominates
so sometimes yeah Burgundy dominates
I played as Brittany recently, trying to stay on France's good side, not get drawn into wars by Burgundy vs England/France/whoeverthehellelse.
To my surprise, the Burgundian Blob is now a solid rectangle owning everything from it's starting southern borders to ile-de-France and Antwerpen, having beaten down France in three successive wars. First time I've ever seen it do it... The Big Burgundy Blob is headed my way... (Fortunately I'm fleeing to the Carribean soon.)
Burgundy is doing just as it should in my games, it almost never defeat France but it mostly always complete its missions to conquer brabant etc. They often have 60k+ armies in my games which is just fine and challenging. I almost always play with historical lucky nations and low aggression level which prevents the majors from collapsing somewhat.