your great war

[damnt512]

this post might have existed before
but its been a pretty long time since the thread became inactive
so, can you tell the entire forum about the great war you have ever experienced?
my great war happens recently, it was even happened a few times

i played two sicilies and trying to unite italy
at that time the entire italy is under my sphere or control except the sardinias that is under french influence
austria then suddenly declares war against north german(prussia my ally and other states)and i answer the call
its my very first war mobilization and my total army is 136.000 man
all this man march to austria from the italian borders at milan and venice,so i win the war and get milan
then after i've formed italy they declared war on me again, with a larger army

i played this defensively because i've prepared for the war by building forts at the entire northern italy
i managed to destroy their entire army to 0 and i get venice, south tirol, and istria
so this war almost make me unite the entire italian core
there some more war where i finally get dalmatia and i win every war, causing austria to release all of their dominion and having a prestige around 14
and now i've managed to get austria into my sphere of influence, once my biggest threat now only my puppet

and all those war involve almost a million man(yes i was greatly outnumbered)

 

[Restless Native]

Not getting much replies so I'll give you mine.
Playing a game as Prussia to Germany and had risen to number 2 in the rankings but still a long way behind uk so decided to take them on.
I had shiny new cruisers so won the naval war and occupied the British isles easily. However all there military and industrial power was in India.
I managed to land a large force in India to witch all of the enemies 1,200,000 troops met in a pitch battle. I had to ship all my forces and mobilised reserves to fight them and ended up around 650,000 on my side in one mega battle.
Fortunatley I had gas attack which is why I didn't get creamed. In fact I manged to position small forces in the sorrounding provinces so after the four year long battle! The British lost over a million men in one go.
After this I forced them to free a huge independant India. Little did I know that when trying to destroy a monster I created a new one.
They quicky Westernised as they had the uk tech and then became a great power. Then turned on a crippled uk. They took the rest of inda off them while I piled in and freed Ireland cus I could.

As a reult I was ranked number one in the world and uk slipped to number three behind my new best friend India.

 

[Kingmitch23]

Scandinavian Great War

I got one fought U.K.,Russia,Prussia,Austria,France, Spain, Portugal (English ally) with only Ireland as my ally in a one year span (most simultaneously)

Playing as Sweden I already formed Scandinavia, took back Finland, and took a bit of northern Germany. In terms of overseas territories I had split Morocco with Spain and Portugal, have Sicily, have an Egyptian region containing Suez, parts of Indonesia and Vietnam, one Venezuelan state in South America, and a large colonial presence in Africa. After I had waited a while for infamy to decrease I decide to further Scandinavian dominance around the Baltic and take the two Russian provinces closest to me, one adjacent to Finland and the other a German province Russia took from Prussia.

During my previous wars I primarily used two armies of 126,000, consisting mainly of guards with cavalry and artillery support. These armies are the best in the world, advanced and experienced, and each have transports and warships to take them wherever they are needed . I used these two armies as my combat troops and use smaller support armies to take Russian land.

About two years into the war, which saw multiple battles involving over half a million Russians vs one of my elite Armies as well as the decimation of both fleets that only I recovered from, I am winning the war with max battle score and a third of Russian Europe and decide to add one more demand and accept peace when all my previous demands are met as well as Bohemia is freed. It seems that immediately after my last demand all of Europe is active.The ultimate opportunist takes a stab while the Russian bear is wounded. Austria declares war against Russia and marches into southern Russia, unopposed as I have the full attention of the Russian army, and quickly occupies a large part of Russia.

 

[Kingmitch23]

Only a months after Austrian aggression Prussia attacks me, forcing almost half of my military and one of my elites to turn back towards Berlin. Weeks after this my closest ally Ireland is attacked by U.K. and my South American colony is attacked by France. I prioritize and decline Ireland calls for help, but vow to intervene ASAP. I make one final push against the bear and settle for my initial demands plus a small German state, ignoring my goals of a Bohemian buffer state. I send all my African troops towards French Africa run up the war score as much as possible eventually establishing a white peace with France. After regaining provinces initially occupied by Prussia, as well as raising an army, I am confident of my future success in Germany and rush to my allies defense, intervening in the U.K-Ireland war. I send one of my elite armies to help with a major battle, 60 Irish brigades vs 80 British brigades, that has been going on for weeks, as both have reinforcement brigades being added regularly. The other elite army I send to speed up the Irish occupation of Scotland. 3 months into the war with Prussia I have established a Scandinavian occupied Berlin and it is only a matter of time before all of Prussia is occupied.

That opportunity is shattered as, Fresh off their "victory" over the Russian the Austrians strike again, this time with their ally Spain, and attack Prussia and, once again, march in unopposed and occupy half of Prussia. After almost a decade of continuous war against Great powers I decide to opt for the quickest and most favorable peace. I agree to a white peace with the U.K that leaves Ireland safe under my sphere of influence and settle for a small German state despite my near total dominance of Prussia. However I recognize the threat, and potential, of Austria and intervene on the side of my former enemy, this only days after my peace with Prussia. Austria's occupation slowed as my, formerly invading, armies protected Prussia. Any semblance of Austrian victory vanished with the arrival of my elites from Ireland. Austria was quickly defeated and forced to drop their demands and settle for a white peace with Prussia.

The decade of war left two elite armies with full experience, Scandinavian naval supremacy (as I engaged in a massive building project after the Russians wiped out my old fleet), Scandinavian German territories being expanded and fortified, Russian fall from a #4 GP to #8 (which they eventually recovered from), and a free Ireland.

 

[2dme]

My Greatest war was in 1.2. I'd finally formed Italy as Two Sicilies, was the 4th Great Power and allied with Russia. The year was around 1900.

Austria decided it would be fun to attack me to take back the Italian cores i had wrestled off them previously, no problem, i was expecting that. However, France joined in, using Savoie as an excuse, so i was fighting a war on 2 fronts with the 2 most powerful nations. Russia fought against the Austrians but not the French, so that helped my right flank. Luckily, Frances badboy was quite high, and NGF took the oppurtunity to attack France for Alace-Lorraine. The GB defended France so i ended up with 6 GPs in an almost historical WW1 set up. Eventually i won thanks to Gas Attacks and having an absolutely huge army, but it took a while, especially after Russia and NGF white peaced.

 

[Zarine]

Copy from an already made post :

The first real WW in my Victoria 2 games... In 1860...
(Yeah, I'm using personal mod...)
War 1 : France (GP 4) + Belgium + Spain + Papal State + Piedmont + Switzerland vs UK (me, GP 1) + Austria (GP 3) + USA (GP 5) + India minor + All South America + Mexico + Sweden
War 2 : France (GP 4) + Belgium + Spain + Papal State + Piedmont + Switzerland vs Russia (GP 2) + Ottoman (GP 6) + NGF (GP 7)

Only GP without war : Bavaria n°8
Top 30 not at war : Bavaria (8), CSA (10), Wurtemberg (18), Netherland (19), Tuscany (20), Portugal (22), Baden (25), Denmark (26, stupid ally doesn't want to join), Krakow (27)

So here is Europe, with diplomatic view from France :

And here is the world map (not so much info as nearly all France alliance is in Europe...

Die France !!!

Results :
War 1 : France lost all colonies and other state oversea to UK,Belgium annexed by UK, Piedmont Tunisia captured by UK, east Switzerland annexed by Austria.
War 2 : France lost Elsass-Lothringen to NGF, west Switzerland annexed by NGF

 

[damnt512]

Copy from an already made post :

The first real WW in my Victoria 2 games... In 1860...
(Yeah, I'm using personal mod...)
War 1 : France (GP 4) + Belgium + Spain + Papal State + Piedmont + Switzerland vs UK (me, GP 1) + Austria (GP 3) + USA (GP 5) + India minor + All South America + Mexico + Sweden
War 2 : France (GP 4) + Belgium + Spain + Papal State + Piedmont + Switzerland vs Russia (GP 2) + Ottoman (GP 6) + NGF (GP 7)

Only GP without war : Bavaria n°8
Top 30 not at war : Bavaria (8), CSA (10), Wurtemberg (18), Netherland (19), Tuscany (20), Portugal (22), Baden (25), Denmark (26, stupid ally doesn't want to join), Krakow (27)

So here is Europe, with diplomatic view from France :

And here is the world map (not so much info as nearly all France alliance is in Europe...

Die France !!!

Results :
War 1 : France lost all colonies and other state oversea to UK,Belgium annexed by UK, Piedmont Tunisia captured by UK, east Switzerland annexed by Austria.
War 2 : France lost Elsass-Lothringen to NGF, west Switzerland annexed by NGF

you really got the french dead

 

[cpreston5]

As Japan, I had taken most of Dai Nam, except the northern state, Aigun, Formosa, Korea, Brunei and Dutch Muraleve.

I was in a bloody war with Russia, and I had around 3/4 of my 94-brigade army in northern Aigun trying to keep the Russians in Siberia, during this bloody conflict, the Chinese decide to attack and try to reclaim their lost lands. the Russians were kind enough to agree to a white peace.

The Chinese had a 589-brigade army, and they actually did a decent job of bringing a good number to bear, there was roughly 750,000 Chinese troops in the attack. I instantly saw that I had around 75 weary, understength and disorganised brigades cut off. Only in a couple of very close battles did I get my forces into Korea. I had around 15-20 of my least battered brigades holding Korea's 3 most northern provinces, whilst the rest of my force recouperated.

Finally after 2 months the Chinese had only advanced 1 or 2 provinces, and most of my forces were ready to attack. The attack went smoothly, with my casualties being around 1/4 of the Chinese losses but at Mukden they decided to make a really determined stand. At first I had 24,000 troops attacking 30,000 Chinese, but at the height of the 3 month battle, the Chinese had 243,000 troops defending against 96,000 of my troops. By the end of the battle they had lost over 200,000 troops, I had lost 47,000, and the battle was supposedly worth 33.4 warscore! I used my 25 warscore from battles to ask for Halshenwai and they agreed.

From then on the Chinese would never be able to effectively fight the Japanese, and the Japanese Empire would continue to expand at the cost of the Chinese.

 

[NoodleNaught]

I have a game going as Canada in which i ahve risen to the 8th great power. By this point in the game the US has already attacked me twice, and i have been forced to give them the province the US starts a core with in the first war, in the second war i fought them to a white peace. In neither of the wars did my ally the UK help me. Now after the US civil war has ended, they declared war on me again. Thier two armies went directly to attack my two armies, one of which was stationed in the Rocky moutains of British Columbia, while the other was stationed in Montreal. The american that attacked British Columbia, took heavy casulities in thier attack, while mine were quite light, so i quickly chased them back across the border, and finished them off, after which i occupied everything west of the Mississippi River. While the American army that attacked Montreal, defeated my Canadian troops, with US casualties at about 6500, and Canadian losses at about 5500, however my Canadian force managed to escape west to Toronto, regroup, and eventually launch a counter attack against the American forces in Canada. After three battles i completely wiped them out, and began to invade the eastern US. However after the occupation of the states that bordered me three great powers sudenly declared war on me, the powers being the UK, Russia, and France. They all have begun to land forces in both eastern, and western Canada, and are slowly pushing me back.
Unfortunately this is as far as i have goten in my "Great War".

 

[damnt512]

I have a game going as Canada in which i ahve risen to the 8th great power. By this point in the game the US has already attacked me twice, and i have been forced to give them the province the US starts a core with in the first war, in the second war i fought them to a white peace. In neither of the wars did my ally the UK help me. Now after the US civil war has ended, they declared war on me again. Thier two armies went directly to attack my two armies, one of which was stationed in the Rocky moutains of British Columbia, while the other was stationed in Montreal. The american that attacked British Columbia, took heavy casulities in thier attack, while mine were quite light, so i quickly chased them back across the border, and finished them off, after which i occupied everything west of the Mississippi River. While the American army that attacked Montreal, defeated my Canadian troops, with US casualties at about 6500, and Canadian losses at about 5500, however my Canadian force managed to escape west to Toronto, regroup, and eventually launch a counter attack against the American forces in Canada. After three battles i completely wiped them out, and began to invade the eastern US. However after the occupation of the states that bordered me three great powers sudenly declared war on me, the powers being the UK, Russia, and France. They all have begun to land forces in both eastern, and western Canada, and are slowly pushing me back.
Unfortunately this is as far as i have goten in my "Great War".

well if you want a "greater" great war then try to play as european or major uncivilized nation(china,japan,panjab)

 

[Aliasing]

I have had one Recently in my Israel game
Although I'm not in it Per Se I funded two different Nations during it.

It was 1875 and the Sicilians wanted the Libyan coast from the Ottomans. So then The French (who were the Sphere leaders of the Ottomans) moved in to help the Ottomans as well as the Many Ottoman Sats and Dominions I used to make them stop Dowing me. Then The UK joined in on Sicily's side and several other nations joined in.
While this was happening I was having a Major war for Egyptian Land so I wouldn't be annexed by the Ottomans and I managed to take all except Giza region by 1894. The Ottomans have tried to move back into the Lybian coast and so far it is still being contested over as it is the third war over it now.

Once I get Tanks though there will be a HUGE ass war involved in the Middle East as since I own Hedjaz and France is trying to Colonize near me in Africa Im going to reign hell down onto them.

Only problem is I only have one non-colonial province (Palestine) and 1 National Focus point since No Ashkenazi live in my entire Empire.

Only Sephardim.


Soon though I shall reign down hell and create the First Major World War

 

[williamprowant]

You could give yourself a boost of Ashkenazi pop and lower the levels of Ashkenazi in the rest of the world, in order to simulate the massive flood of people that would have happened when Israel forms. A large percentage of 1940's Israeli pop came from immigration so should Israel be released in this time frame I'd bet there would be a huge flood of people.

 

[Lusen]

Well, it wasnt a "great war" large as yors but still a great war.
I was italy and my allied NGF decided to take Alsace-Loirrene from the french. The problem was that austria-hungury was their allied, so it was a pretty big war across Europe.
Especially becuse smaller nations like Switzerland, POrtugal, Baden and Bavaria was involved to.
The ottoman empire was also invloved on the french side but not very much.

 

[robb1993]

Had a quiet peaceful game as Italy.
Peacefully united under Sardinia-Peidmonte and had colonised Cape of Africa and some west coast African lands.
Just pootling along at number 6 with a large sphere of influence (including Cyprus and Greece) I also owned a province in Egypt following their attack upon Italian Suez Canal in the late 1870's.
Just sitting and building my industry.
Suddenly a war breaks out
''Ottoman restoration of order to the Cypriot Provinces''

Greece, Italy(me) and Cyprus against the Ottoman empire.
I rushed my navies and blockades all ports in the Mediterranean and shut down their navy in the Dardenalls with my superior fire power (man-o-wars against cruisers-no contest) and moved 130,000 troops to Greece which was under heavy attack and some 15,000 to Cyprus.
By the time my troops landed in South Greece the Greek Army had been massacred. Upwards of 250,000 Turks had swarmed the border and destroyed the tiny Greek force.
So i used my four army's to stabilize the Greek line then pushed up and routed two Ottoman armies and caused massive carnage. ( It's 1910 at this time) with upwards of 40,000 dead Turks for around 7000 Italian losses.
with the line stabilized and the first victory of the war i pushed further along the gap i had just made clearing out the Ottoman forces before finally arriving at the border with Turkish Europe.
I swung my troops round and into the rear of the Turk pocket and over the course of the next month massacred the entire force by encircling them and launching massive attacks.
With Greece saved I advanced into the Balkans and then discovered the entire Ottoman Army had been destroyed in Greece.
Half a year later and my troops have occupied everything from Belgrade to the border and i forced a peace with Greece gaining Western Macedonia.

third and last war of the game for me

 

[williamprowant]

OE(#1), Italy(#8), NGF(#6), Canada(#7), USA(#5), Lithuania, Sweden vs. Russia(#2), Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Krakow for the return of the Crimea to OE. Eventually expanded that war and Kazakhstan was also handed over to OE. NGF gained Western Poland in that war. Second war was OE(#1), USA(#5), Canada(#6), Lithuania vs. Russia(#2), Estonia, Krakow for restoration of core territory to USA and Canada. Now North America has modern day borders and Russia is left with territory that closely resembles its modern day borders. The second war was a sad war though as I, the OE, invaded Russian North America with 100 brigades (I know 300,000 troops into the Canadian wilderness is a bad idea, but I had to be sure they weren't mega stacking) and lost 50 brigades to attrition. Thats over 150,000 dead just in attrition alone in one theater but it was worth it as now Russia is stuck with its Eurasian territory and will be easier to carve pieces off of.

 

[drig]

ok so only 2 GP's involved (so far) and maybe not quite as 'great' as some other great wars in this thread. but i thought it notable anyway, considering the year and general strategic situation. this is pdm mod. my infamy is in the 40's. i control most of africa, southeast and east asia. germany and uk are in dead heat for #1 with me a couple thousand points behind.

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As you can see, it is 1913 and i am close to getting tanks. #1 germany declared containment war on #3 Scandinavia (me) and my allies around the world. my euro allies (A-H, Poland, Lithuania, switzerland) and I field 1200 standing brigades to germany's 1800. +70 more brigades if Ukraine can get relevant military access (unlikely since poland has a ukraine core). around 650 of those brigades are mine, the best in the world.

I last fought germany to a stalemate 30 years ago. My army has been totally revamped and modernised since then, (in my first war i had WAAYYY too much cavalry and had to throw them against german guard doomstacks...). While I am banking on some degree of tech advantage, the germans will severely outmobilize me. My allies and I may be outnumbered 2-1 or more once everyone gets mobilized. The positives are that i am in fairly good position to knock around the german west african colony, and I think i will have naval superiority. but we shall see... USA recently and unexpectedly manhandled my Pacific navy so you never know. That said, if germany is wasting time researching naval techs that is A okay with me

I am at 200 relation with france and netherlands, but they will not ally. belgium bailed on me when germany declared war. If i can hold out long enough my hope is France will enter to retake Alsace-Loraine.

 

[drig]

Update:

To summarize: Germany (at the time #1) declared a containment war on me (then #3). I thrashed her pretty hard but when i added a wargoal (free denmark) uk declared a containment war on me. After about a year and half of war that stretched throughout east and central europe, france now intervrenes to retake A-L. Germany's great power ally Italy intervenes on germany's behalf.

my war has indeed blossomed into a great war, as i thought it might. technically it is 3 wars, but, well, given the constraints of the game this is now a legit alternate history wwi with action from verdun to minsk. and also action taking place in the amazon, indochina, persia, west africa, and siberia. and naval engagements around the world.

all 5 european great powers, though no Russia (who has lost 20 straight wars and is in perpetual revolution).

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[drig]

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Compare with postwar...

A-H reacquired Stirmark, Poland got Moravia and Silesia, Bohemia was freed, Denmark was freed and will petition for diplo-annexation sooner or later, and France reacquired Alace-Lorraine, just as I had hoped.

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As you can see, Germany was totally crushed and somewhat balkanized. I had to leave them with a Slovakian enclave, however. Ukraine wound up being a key ally, as they occupied german siberia, much of german africa, and a handful of core german provinces as well. They even added a wargoal to annex hanover, but i had already added too many goals so couldn't get the scores to work and had to abandon that goal. this was sad, since they had pitched in so much. That said, the allies who paid the biggest price in blood were compensated. I didn't give bohemia back to A-H b/c i don't want them getting back near great power status.

Germany will be communist very soon.

Plans for future balkanization of Germany: Lithuania gets east prussia, Poland will get Posen and West Prussia, Slovakia and maybe Bavaria will be freed, A-H will get Tirol back, and most importantly Pomerania will come back to Sweden's hands. That'll probably take another gigantic war, though hopefully that will not be as much a slog as this war was.

 

[damnt512]

a pretty good scandinavian game you have there
also i suggest you register your victoria II game

 

[drig]

EH NEVER mind... i have figured out how to register....