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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
and they also changed iberia so that it doesn't look horrifically unsightly when aragon takes a province off castile!! | ||
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Sweden11767 Posts
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United Kingdom7084 Posts
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Canada5009 Posts
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myzael
Poland605 Posts
On September 25 2014 04:46 WindWolf wrote: Oh, and just a heads up. They mentioned on the stream that the next patch/expansion has the risk of breaking existing saves. Just so that you are aware in case you have a game you really want to finish Understatement. It's virtually guaranteed to break saves. | ||
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
![[image loading]](http://puu.sh/bOqOI/1603e45663.jpg) thanks Ireland you're the best Ottomans annexed Knights literally 1 year before I was ready :/ | ||
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Bojas
Netherlands2397 Posts
http://i.imgur.com/c3n6k6Z.jpg If I can somehow pull this off WC would be pretty easy I think. Info: - France is sitting at about 45k manpower to my 54k. - Allied to the commonwealth and a few electors but none want to join the war sadly. - I've got a huge bank and high income. Opted to keep army relatively small because the biggest country I had to fight yet was Denmark + unions, but my force limit is sitting at 81 so I can match the French army. - Got a 5% discipline advisor, the rest has been fired - Military tech is 6, for France 6 as well I'm thinking of luring them to Tirol to drain his manpower vs an army consisting of a relatively high percentage of mercs since I'm sitting on a huge bank. Any Erwin Rommels out there? | ||
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Simberto
Germany11798 Posts
Your navy should be superior, so you might want to make sure the Scots never ferry in any troops, just to be sure. Never fight on french soil until you have broken their army. You could try to destroy saxony while the french advance on your western border, just to have them out of the war, because this will be a long one and they could be a bit annoying behind you. Be very careful about their generals and your generals. Sometimes the french randomly have a 6/6 general, which is really dangerous. Let them proceed a bit forward and split their troops up. Then crush smaller armies with a larger army, preferably with a better general on your side. This might be a bit problematic. Your goal in this war is to drain them of their manpower pool, and siege their shit afterwards. Sieging stuff in france before that point is pointless and dangerous. If you can wipe stacks, do it, but i highly doubt you will be able to without forced march, so don't be too keen on it and get caught in bad battles in France. As long as you trade manpower positively, you are fine. You have to balance your manpower vs your money, you can just recruit a large army of mercs and let them take the main brunt of the damage which will cost more money but less manpower. | ||
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Bojas
Netherlands2397 Posts
They had two 2-star generals, however with only like 3 fire and 2 shock each. My generals were able to keep up. France kept taking awful fights against an army consisting of 80% mercs, I could keep that high amount of mercs up without losing much money. Their manpower was gone faster than I expected it to go away. Mine was almost untouched. After a while I got to tech 7 and built 10 artillery units. Despite artillery not being as good early game, they were enough to make my army stronger quality wise. Saxony sieged almost all of Bohemia, I guess I prefer that over them going for my own land. Overall this war went a lot easier than I thought it would go. | ||
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419
Russian Federation3631 Posts
they mad, gl improving relations. Maybe get Provence to return cores. | ||
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Bojas
Netherlands2397 Posts
On September 26 2014 23:10 419 wrote: nice job. Tirol is amazing manpower saver, providing upkeep for 12 merc units on its own. they mad, gl improving relations. Maybe get Provence to return cores. Yeah they are still mad (as of 1515). They have grown about 6 provinces since then. They only have the vassal attitude at exactly +200. I'm doing great currently -- secured most of the balkans, kicked Veniceand the pope out of Italy, vassalized Naples. Only for some reason the reformation is going HAM on Central-Europe. I try to force religion as much as I can. And I can a lot -- France kicks everyone's asses so I can steal their lunch money or grab some IA from forcing a release in a seperate peace. If I recall corectly forcing religion gives IA right? I'm working on the third reform and I'm currently experiencing that my IA stays at 0. I try to keep every country as small as possible, but the amount of IA lost from countries switching religion is greater than the amount I can get from releasing countries. I force most of them back to Catholicism, but that doesn't give me any IA. | ||
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ShiaoPi
TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5956 Posts
On September 27 2014 00:15 Bojas wrote: Yeah they are still mad (as of 1515). They have grown about 6 provinces since then. They only have the vassal attitude at exactly +200. I'm doing great currently -- secured most of the balkans, kicked Veniceand the pope out of Italy, vassalized Naples. Only for some reason the reformation is going HAM on Central-Europe. I try to force religion as much as I can. And I can a lot -- France kicks everyone's asses so I can steal their lunch money or grab some IA from forcing a release in a seperate peace. If I recall corectly forcing religion gives IA right? I'm working on the third reform and I'm currently experiencing that my IA stays at 0. I try to keep every country as small as possible, but the amount of IA lost from countries switching religion is greater than the amount I can get from releasing countries. I force most of them back to Catholicism, but that doesn't give me any IA. they changed that last patch I think? you can no longer get IA from force-switching them. you will have to rely on the other IA farming methods I am afraid :S | ||
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
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Bojas
Netherlands2397 Posts
On September 27 2014 01:23 ShiaoPi wrote: they changed that last patch I think? you can no longer get IA from force-switching them. you will have to rely on the other IA farming methods I am afraid :S In that case they should have considered the consequences.. as usual they didn't really think their patch changes through. I guess I'll be able to get the next reform when the reformation is over. On September 27 2014 01:29 419 wrote: aka enforce peace on literally anyone (enforce peace between two indian minors! collect 20 IA!) Woah I completely forgot about that! Thank you!!! Edit: just tried enforcing peace, what I am supposed to do for it to give me IA? | ||
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
Edit: just tried enforcing peace, what I am supposed to do for it to give me IA? if you take over war leader, as long as you win you should get IA. in other news, playing as protectorate is hilariously broken. Full annexing countries and spitting them out as correct-religion vassals is the best. | ||
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Bojas
Netherlands2397 Posts
On September 27 2014 19:27 419 wrote: if you take over war leader, as long as you win you should get IA. in other news, playing as protectorate is hilariously broken. Full annexing countries and spitting them out as correct-religion vassals is the best. Apparently they changed that as well. I used enforce peace like 3 times now on countries within the HRE (haven't really discovered outside of Europe yet) and did not receive IA from forcing them to pay up their lunch money. | ||
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
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Netherlands2397 Posts
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