ETW succession game - interested?

**TinCow** · 03-23-2009, 01:26

No need. I'm about halfway done with my turn but probably won't finish up until Tuesday or Wednesday. I definitely will not be posting anything before Thursday and likely later.

The pirates faction is driving me bonkers.

**TinCow** · 03-26-2009, 00:59

http://rapidshare.com/files/21355717..._1720.zip.html

Finally done.

Quick summary:

Carlos II is still alive and as raving mad as ever.

War has been focused exclusively on North Africa and the Americas. In North Africa, we have captured the Barbary Pirates provinces as far as Tunisia. They only have one left before they are finished. They are not much of a threat anymore. In North America, attacks by the natives stopped after Texas was taken. Attention was then diverted to the Pirates. This required a large naval build-up, because I couldn't get near their island cities without getting ambushed by a massive fleet. I eventually defeated this fleet and took the two southernmost islands (C-something and Trinidad). This was also the mission objective for union with New Spain, which has also occurred, so that part of Objective 1 is now complete. I have largely neglected development of new armies because I needed the money for economic development. The only significant armies are currently on Trinidad (with a large fleet which has just repaired) and near Tunis. The rest of the Empire is lightly defended, though it is also unthreatened. It shouldn't be hard to recruit forces quickly if they are needed.

Economic development was a major priority, and I invested a lot of money in improving our income, particularly in the Americas. I've built and upgraded many plantations and mines there. We're currently raking in about 12-14k per turn, though it was at 18-22k a couple turns ago and I don't know why it dropped so quickly. In any case, it's enough to meet all immediate needs each turn, with extra left over for further development. Oh, there's also a pirate fleet that's raiding a trade route in the Americas. Should be easy to crush with the Trinidad fleet.

I focused efforts on research where I could, particularly emphasizing work towards Fire By Rank. I actually finally got that on the very last turn of my game, so it's finally ready. We currently have 3 relatively upgraded colleges and there's also a fourth town that's been tasked to become a college town in Cuba, but which is still building.

Diplomatic relations are horrible. I was never able to make an alliance or get a new trade route with anyone, despite offering tech for them to pretty much everyone. France keeps asking for Texas, but that's about the only diplomacy we see. We... uh... are also at war with Denmark, Russia, Courland, and Saxony. They attacked New Spain the turn before I absorbed it and I told them where they could go stuff it. This is so far a sitzkrieg, as they don't have any naval forces remotely near us and we don't share any land borders with them.

I'm personally a big fan of naval warfare, so I've built up two ports near Gibralter as ship-building centers. I've relied exclusively on Galleons for my navies so far, but we should be able to start building proper warships now and send the galleons off to trade duty.

I think the Empire is well-primed now for a proper European war. The next player should have a decent shot at invading Austria or Britain if they wanted to, though Britain would require a massive naval build up.

Screenies, check out Russia's prestige level in comparison to GH's previous post: