Grand Strategy Yet another EU4 MP game

I thought that was a clever move - not shocked it led to a war, though.

What's the state of that war atm? I hear BBurg is out of manpower.

 

Yeah I did so only because you did not end alliances with Nogai and Crimea, thus not upholding your part of the agreement. Putting me in a situation where I was forced to do so.

Don't give me any of that oh I can only have them as allies crap, they are worth shit even this far into the hame thanks to horde tech.

 

BBurg and Denmark going at it and what I know 35k Russians helping. In the east Russians won one battle and managed to stop the bleeding so I have to replenish my forces. But they are already 30k mp below me. On Timurid front... well Timurids are dying.

 

You didnt specify you wanted me to end those alliances right there. You didnt even ask. You didnt tell me you wanted to take that land right away either.

 

It's not like that would be implied by the fact that I want to attack them would it?

 

You were mid war with Poland-Lithuania how can I know your plans if you dont share them.

 

France friend to all will solve this.

 

You should attack Austria or sth, that would be a fun global time of war.

 

The Holy Roman Emperor will not tolerate Turkish agitation.

 

The natural state of BB is to be out of manpower. That's what you got mercs for. And I've won pretty much every battle so far, even at terrible odds. I've taken some danish german lands and maybe I'll take some more, but Denmark is pretty agile at using his ships to move troops around. Getting to the Danish heartland is tricky but not impossible I think.

 

We will see what happens. IF it wasn't for the Russians and the fact i only had half my MP pool when the war started i would be in a better shape.

How ever for BBurg it is not looking perfect. I can not win over his forces in a straight up fight and he can not continue to sustain the bleed long enough. And operation "I am on a boat" is about to start and it will be interesting to see what happens. We are decedent of vikings after all and i got a plan.

So either we get a mutual beneficial peace or we fight it out and the Russians get's front where they will not have any worry's because we killed one another.

MERC's are not that great if you can not sustain them.

 

Save game

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p0ctessq06gm9qj/Codex S3E5.eu4

 

How did the whole war start anyway? Who pressed the red button?

 

Well Branden Burg Attacked me. That's about it.

 

I did.

EDIT: Beaten

I don't think Rus liked your warfare in his backyard.

 

If it was a clear 1vs1 I would not intervene but seeing as Russia did and he allied Timurids too seemed like a good idea.

 

Letting your self be played by the Russians... tsk tsk.

 

Guys, we should all be striving to preserve the Balance

 

Sorry guys, I was victimized by a power outtake. I have joined the local electricism movement in response.

How hard did England collapse?

This game's events (until I blacked out): The English started out with a slight surplus of 4 gold per turn. Thanks to the good king Henry III, who generously supported the arts and science, advances in all fields could be made and England was soon able to send it's first Colonialist toward what is now known as Spanish Brazil. While the Colony was half way to completion, disaster struck. Religious zealots from all directions swarmed the islands and english being English, the false gods and their hate preachers soon had a tight grip on the English population and more and more provinces fell victim to either Protestant or Reformed Heretics. With tax income dwindling due to widespread heresy, the English colony in Spanish Brazil was gifted to the Spanish people. The heresy continued however. At minus 40 gold per month and bankruptcy looming the English's kings hand was forced. He declared FUCK THE POPE and the Country... blew up. For the balance between the three religious factions was almost totally even with about 1/3 of provinces belonging to each belief Reformed, Catholicism and Protestant. Tax Income remained at a staggering minus 40 gold per month and unable to pay for anything England went bankrupt twice in a row, while Peasant and Zealot mobs rivaling the French army raided entire countrysides. The English fleet and army was dissolved to the last man and ship but the Numbers are still in the red. The situation is looking very grim.
Meanwhile, the cancerous Milan used the English situation to start an assault on rightful god-given English turf. France has already announced colonies in London and Wales. Denmark broke their long-time Alliance with us, despite our generous help resolving a very similar Danish situation. Will England be able to recover from total Jihad while defending its territories and see another century? Only God knows at this point and it isn't even clear which one of them.

 

So that was the reason for your sudden generosity.

't was interesting game, even though most of my time was spent trying to figure current status of Castille, get some idea of political map of the Europe and figuring out at least somewhat sensible direction for colonization.

Was also caught a bit by surprise due to colonial nations as I've not yet forked out the jewgolds for expansion myself. :p

 

You dont need the expansion for that. It is included in latest patch.

Have you formed Spain? i wasn't to far away when I last played.

 

No, I messed that up a bit, spending administrative points around a bit too liberally. Didn't realize I could've gone the diplomatical decision route so easily until later to the game. And with current leader having 0 admin power it's piling up terribly slow. I'll probably be faster by diplomatically integrating them than via decision at this point.

 

Heres my mini AAR:

I started the session slowly, beating nomadic neighbors to the east and bringing under my control the remaining Caucasus area. I also integrated Tunisia and Wallachia and also vassalized one of the Arabian minors. Situation was very stable on all borders.

Russia has reached out to em and we negotiated a compromise concerning the horde territories in the north. A good compromise that secured my interests around the Black Sea and removed areas of potential conflict between us. I really thought we have resoled our issues there.

Then I noticed I can offer protectorate to both Crimea and Nogai and they both will accept. I did so saving myself few diplo points every month and that can never hurt - especially since I removed Bulgarian and Georgian cultures from the map.

And then I saw Russia ally with Timurids in an obviously hostile move against me. There was no reason for this since Russia has already expressed its concern about my new protectorates and we agreed they can be released whenever necessary. So I had to act.

What I did first was negotiating with Austria. I have managed to convince them to break their alliance with Russia and that gave me a free hand on the western border. Then when I was almost ready to present the ultimatum all shit broke loose elsewhere.

Milan declared war on England. It wasnt very surprising seeing as England was engulfed in a religious civil war and very weak. Milan has also chosen its timing perfectly since I couldnt move against it - Austria was still allied to Russia and I had no way of reaching into Italy. And then Brandenburg invaded Denmark. And Russia joined the war too. That was a second attack against my ally in the timespan of several months. I was seriously concerned about my position with a serious threat of isolation. I preemptively declared war on the Timurids wanting to test its alliance with Russia. Not surprisingly Russia hasnt honored the alliance. I beat Timurid armies and moved most of my forces to the Russian border, then declared a religious war against Russia.

The war is going rather well. I have won most of the battles, including one with almost 3 to 1 odds against me, and occupied 5 Russian provinces already. Unfortunately Timurids are fighting harder than expected and I couldnt move all of my forces to the northern front - Russia used its local superiority to win one battle before the session ended, where they managed to jump my 12k unled stack with almost 60k of their troops. Huge provinces in the east stopped my reinforcements for long enough to force my withdrawal. Still Russia is down to 50k manpower (80k for me) and has not pressed its advantage and actually withdrew after the successful battle. I will reinforce and renew my offensive.

 

Ok I'm out, can't ever hope to fight the retarded idiocy that is Ghazi, ever. Especially when every one else decides to abandon me. GG

 

Huh?

Anyway - France's game this time was one of consolidation and preparation. I vassalized Savoy and Austria gave me two provinces to stop my spread into Germany, which will now be limited to my current German vassals (four of them, if I recall). I have built a mighty Navy and am now starting to look overseas, to the rich New World, for my next avenue of expansion.

I won't lie, though - I kinda want to invade England. Hard not to.