Go Savoy!

[Skott]

In my Prussia campaign the little country of Savoy (Turin) has invaded France and captured Paris! I'm not sure who originally attacked who but Savoy has three armies (2 full stacks and 1 half stack) in France and kicking the Frenchie's butts good. This just leaves Alasce-Lorraine in French posession but I'm about to relieve them of it. Has anyone else seen Savoy expand and conquor before? First I have seen them of doing it. Kinda funny.

[Megas Methuselah]

Well, that's interesting. In one of my campaigns, Savoy had lost its capital region to France (but still survived as I had gifted Sardinia to it much earlier).

In any case, it is interesting because Savoy was the power that united Italy (which makes me wish we could switch our capitals) in the mid 1800's.

[Fisherking]

Interesting development.

I have not seen it happen in any of mine so far. I don’t know what they did to get the cash to build all that.

Any ideas what else they did in that game?

[Monsieur Alphonse]

I have seen that once. And Wurtenberg has destroyed France also once. But France has also taken Savoy on a coupe of occasions. Sometimes late in the game the French are starting to expand into southern Germany and Northern Italy, but most of the time they stay at home drinking wine and make like rabbits. That is why they end up with such an enormous population.

[Azlahn]

If you play as France, there's a 99,9% chance the Savoy(t)ards will attack you at some point, unless of course you attack them first. Never thought they would actually have a chance though :P

[Tora]

Minor states seem ridiculously over-powerful at times. In my Ottoman campaign, after assisting them to ward off a Russian invasion, it's 1707 and the Crimean Khanate has taken 2 Russian provinces and is invading a third, while I'm strolling to St Petersburg with impunity, meeting minimal resistance.
Yet to combat Georgia I've had to build 2 forts on the border to keep them out and still havent been able to build a big enough force to take Tblisi, despite wiping out 3 full stacks they've sent into my territory.
I'm desperately trying to take them out before Dagestan decides to join in, having bad memories of taking them both on in my now deceased Russian campaign, when they always seemed to have twice as many armies than me despite only having one production city apiece.