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07-14-2004, 17:57
So I decided to play a campaign using Denmark on Expert, starting in early....and it's been a walk in the park. I'm really not trying to gloat or anything but the cpu said that it was a harder setting than the one I had selected so I thought it would be fun to have a quaint little empire get run over by Germany and play the victim for once.
This never happened. I've not had ONE war with Germany and as of last night it was 1292. I invaded Scotland, getting a foothold in the U.K. without war with England. When I did go to war with England it only lasted a few years, because I waited until France basically eradicated all their armies and the provinces were falling to rebels. I was allied with them when all they had was Northubria and I held all the U.K. besides. I had one HUGE lucky break with my war with France. I invaded 3 provinces at once and during one of the battles I killed their heirless king, thus ending our war without excommunication. I then proceeded to just sit, wait, and build a navy; taking provinces held by rebels as a result of civil war or uprisings only and withing 100 years I had all the U.K. and the entire coast line from Flanders to Aquitane, with $40,000 florins to boot. Spain finished moping up the Almohads and ran into Egypt who started pushing them back across N. Africa. With amazing consistency, Spanish civil wars started popping up allowing me to take Navarre, Aragon, Castile, and Granada without losing my alliance to Spain or disrupting my shipping routs. I sent troops into Algeria and Tunisia to help the beseiged Spanish hold Egypt off for maybe 20 years before Spain got it in their head to invade Castile. 3 years later Spain is off the map, Sicily holds the papacy so no excomm there, and I'm at war with Egypt in Granada. I push them back to Cyrencia, abandon Tunisia and Algeria to large rebel forces, then pull my troops back to Morocco. A year later Egypt is neutral, I hold all of Spain and the only land rout into Spain (Morrocco) and am at war with no one. Italy is falling to pieces and so I pick up Tolouse, and Burgandy and Germany is VERY busy with Turkey.
so again not to sound arrogant, but is this all there is? I mean there hasn't been a single crisis in this campaign except Spains cute little attempt at Castile, (which due to the fact that for 20 years my soldiers had been dying in Africa to protect spain from Egypt was an uncommonly painfull stab in the back more than a real threat to my nation) And that ended in no time as my armies rolled up from Morocco, and wiped Spain off the face of the map in 3 years, with enough time to get back to Morocco and face the Egyptians who had just hacked through Tunisia and Algeria. Now, Turkey is the only other real power on the map and they can't get through the Germans. Germany and Italy vascillate back and forth over who gets Middle Europe and who will fight the Turks, and Russia is a lump of rebels fighting the Horde. I'm allied with everyone except Egypt, Turkey and Italy (which this late in the game is uncommon as the CPU turns on you when you become the most powerfull) and I have over $300,000 florins in the bank with an annual income of over $7,000. Maybe I should abandon Spain and just see what happens :)
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This never happened. I've not had ONE war with Germany and as of last night it was 1292. I invaded Scotland, getting a foothold in the U.K. without war with England. When I did go to war with England it only lasted a few years, because I waited until France basically eradicated all their armies and the provinces were falling to rebels. I was allied with them when all they had was Northubria and I held all the U.K. besides. I had one HUGE lucky break with my war with France. I invaded 3 provinces at once and during one of the battles I killed their heirless king, thus ending our war without excommunication. I then proceeded to just sit, wait, and build a navy; taking provinces held by rebels as a result of civil war or uprisings only and withing 100 years I had all the U.K. and the entire coast line from Flanders to Aquitane, with $40,000 florins to boot. Spain finished moping up the Almohads and ran into Egypt who started pushing them back across N. Africa. With amazing consistency, Spanish civil wars started popping up allowing me to take Navarre, Aragon, Castile, and Granada without losing my alliance to Spain or disrupting my shipping routs. I sent troops into Algeria and Tunisia to help the beseiged Spanish hold Egypt off for maybe 20 years before Spain got it in their head to invade Castile. 3 years later Spain is off the map, Sicily holds the papacy so no excomm there, and I'm at war with Egypt in Granada. I push them back to Cyrencia, abandon Tunisia and Algeria to large rebel forces, then pull my troops back to Morocco. A year later Egypt is neutral, I hold all of Spain and the only land rout into Spain (Morrocco) and am at war with no one. Italy is falling to pieces and so I pick up Tolouse, and Burgandy and Germany is VERY busy with Turkey.
so again not to sound arrogant, but is this all there is? I mean there hasn't been a single crisis in this campaign except Spains cute little attempt at Castile, (which due to the fact that for 20 years my soldiers had been dying in Africa to protect spain from Egypt was an uncommonly painfull stab in the back more than a real threat to my nation) And that ended in no time as my armies rolled up from Morocco, and wiped Spain off the face of the map in 3 years, with enough time to get back to Morocco and face the Egyptians who had just hacked through Tunisia and Algeria. Now, Turkey is the only other real power on the map and they can't get through the Germans. Germany and Italy vascillate back and forth over who gets Middle Europe and who will fight the Turks, and Russia is a lump of rebels fighting the Horde. I'm allied with everyone except Egypt, Turkey and Italy (which this late in the game is uncommon as the CPU turns on you when you become the most powerfull) and I have over $300,000 florins in the bank with an annual income of over $7,000. Maybe I should abandon Spain and just see what happens :)
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