Not much is right, I just got out of dodge, Burgundy seemed to be beating up France though, who didn't appear to have much of an army.
And France is having 15k troops in England.
In my current SP game France is getting destroyed by Austria and Castille, which sucks because they are the only major power in the game that doesn't hate meGood ol' France. Always doing well when I don't want them to, and always messing up when I do need their help :'(
In my current SP game France is getting destroyed by Austria and Castille, which sucks because they are the only major power in the game that doesn't hate me
I'm so close to the Sweden is Not Overpowered achievement, but I'm never going to get those last two Pomeranian lands if this keeps up. Pomerania is protected by Austria, who is allied with Castille and they've got more than 200k units combined,
Unfortunately not, so the waiting game begins until they get an ally outside the HRE or I die because of a coalition war.Haven't they got another minor ally which you can DoW then which is not protected by Austria?
Guys, remember, game in 7h 22m!
Guys, remember, game in 7h 22m!
Its the final countdown *düdüdüdüdü*
for whoever gets thrown out today
We are starting this sunday imo. There will always be somebody who cant join. Also, Ive played on hotels in Berlin and Oslo, during conferences, while visiting people, during parties and basically at several dates. You just have to have your priorities straight man!
I wont be able to join today, going on a meeting about the new international trade treaties that are being negotiated these days (TTIP and TRIP). Also, my motivation for crushing rebels isnt as high as for hunting young radical students Back on sunday!
I wont be able to join today, going on a meeting about the new international trade treaties that are being negotiated these days (TTIP and TRIP). Also, my motivation for crushing rebels isnt as high as for hunting young radical students Back on sunday!
Guys, remember, game in 7h 22m!
Gamma is reporting that 1.8.1 beta is no longer available ?
One good note is that I think the nation-tiering seems to have worked, judging by the .gif map and player expansion rates. Even our good players seem to post AARs which involve tense struggles! I think the only mishap is Roboleon in Poland, which is definitely a full 5 after the AoW buffs and needs reranking. Somebody invade that man!
I think we might need to find mgo a special tier though.
I think that's more Qara being severely under-rated after being given several gifts by AoW. Most of the Muslim/Horde nations need re-examining in light of AoW. We'll have to do a rerarnk before next game.
It still starts with like 1/3 the base tax of Timurids.
So things were nice and peaceful, right up until Austria called me into a defensive war against the Ottomans. Oh boy.
That hasn't been the case so far at least. The only tangible effect the rebels have had (besides helping me fight the Timurid armies) is to cause Afghanistan to revolt away; but even then the Timurids simply reconquered most of it. What's working against the Timurids is that they can't deal with the attrition. Their army just wilts away in the Persian mountains, which gives them huge war exhaustion. Plus, they're two military tech levels behind me. AI hordes simply are not very good at keeping up in tech. Unfortunately, even at no manpower the Timurids will just keep spamming mercs, whereas my economy is weak and I can barely afford to fund 20k soldiers (my force limit is 29). My vassals have helped immensely in boosting my overall troop count.yeah, but the timurids got fuuuuucked compared to 1.7. In 1.7 they usually ended the game controlling half of Asia, now they collapse to rebels almost immediately. Makes life easier for everyone around them.
That hasn't been the case so far at least. The only tangible effect the rebels have had (besides helping me fight the Timurid armies) is to cause Afghanistan to revolt away; but even then the Timurids simply reconquered most of it. What's working against the Timurids is that they can't deal with the attrition. Their army just wilts away in the Persian mountains, which gives them huge war exhaustion. Plus, they're two military tech levels behind me. AI hordes simply are not very good at keeping up in tech. Unfortunately, even at no manpower the Timurids will just keep spamming mercs, whereas my economy is weak and I can barely afford to fund 20k soldiers (my force limit is 29). My vassals have helped immensely in boosting my overall troop count.
Le fuck
Tap out as France
I'll be claiming this one, fuck Paradox.
1491. What's disappointing is that I drove their war exhaustion up beyond 10, yet within a few months after the war ended they had almost no unrest in most of their provinces. A Shia revolt did break out near my border, but it was quickly crushed. At this point, I might be doing them a favor by taking those Shia provinces off their hands.What's the date now? Because of how unrest works, I think the rebels take a while to build up, but once the bulwark is broken, they just don't stop. Timurids become a permanent rebel-swamp. same thing can happen to Ming - I've seen a Ming spend literally spend a century and a half in permanent revolt before.
...this requires explanation.
GODDAMNIT! Why AI, why?!Poland AAR
22/07/1491
Summary:
Very eventful session, even though events did not unravel quite in the way I had envisioned. At the end of last session I noticed the huge coalition that agressive-expanding Brandenburg had against him, and decided to join in as this was as good a chance as any to free Gdansk from German tyranny and oppression. Unfortunately, the aggro as fuck Swedish AI - which was also in the coalition against BB - went on ahead and declared first, which basically made the whole war rather pointless for me. So I remained rather passive, partly also because my AI Lithuania decided to camp out back home for the longest while, whether I set them to supportive or aggressive. After some impressive play by Jazz he easily managed to peace out against Sweden and even got them to concede defeat. Kudos!
Afterwards, Sweden continiued to be agressive and declared against Novgorod, a war which went well enough, especially after Hansa white peaced out, but again the AI was acting dumb as hell. E.g. after we made a tactial retreat to reshape, the "supportive" AI went head on with the big Swedish army in turns, Lithuania even dividing their army up in small stacks to attack with
Gotta love the AI! .
GODDAMNIT! Why AI, why?!
That worked out fine. We watched the ultimate date movie, Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus.oh, the sacrifices we make for women and sweet, sweet love (hope the date was a success )
Come join the war against the Ottos, Roboleon!
Come join the war against the Ottos, Roboleon!
Didn't you join the war against Roboleon yesterday? Something tells me his excitement isn't going to be too great for this idea.
Didn't you join the war against Roboleon yesterday? Something tells me his excitement isn't going to be too great for this idea.
Sure, but Venetian troops stayed at home for the duration of that war. We didn't actually fight.
The Ottomans, on the other hand, could do with being kicked out of the Balkans. That'd give us both some room to expand.
Ah yes, the tried and true "kick Ottomans out of Balkans" plan that's worked so well for Venice in the past.
I seem to remember a certain Colkate leveraging quite well..
I actually saw the AI doing that in a SP game recently, I was amazed.Ah yes, the tried and true "kick Ottomans out of Balkans" plan that's worked so well for Venice in the past.
I actually saw the AI doing that in a SP game recently, I was amazed.
I have a game going right now where Ramazan is the primary Anatolian power and Serbia and Bulgaria have split the Balkans between them. The Ottomans don't exist. I have no idea what happened, either, as I started as Bagelkhand and couldn't see them.
I laughed. The juxtaposition is uh... something else. On the other hand, this is now how I imagine all of Uzzy's wars went.