ETW SO SO EASY

**hathanhson** · 04-23-2009, 13:14

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85944891@N00/3467511979/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85944891@N00/3468274258/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85944891@N00/3468271854/

try the link, i'm not sure how the posting pic work, 5mb is over size limit ?

**hathanhson** · 04-23-2009, 13:21

langue barrier ?? hey, i'm not native english speaker. maybe we get the term wrong.

by 500k, i mean by 500 grands = 500*1000 = 500.000, right. 6digits.

**anweRU** · 04-23-2009, 13:48

Only the top picture works. The other two have been reduced in size so much that the text can't be read.

790K in trade? You can't get that much from owning all the plantations in Europe, Americas & India. I assume you spammed IM and grabbed the trade slots, and kept adding ships, which I also do as GB, UP & France. However, the commodity prices should have crashed. Commodity prices are proportional to demand & inversely proportional to supply. The world population (i.e. your trade partners) should not be large enough to support that much demand in 1736 (at least, it isn't in any of my games!).

**AussieGiant** · 04-23-2009, 13:53

Yes that is officially a ludicrous amount of trade.

**Wandarah** · 04-23-2009, 13:54

pics are 'shopped!

**TinCow** · 04-23-2009, 14:09

For convenience, the screenshots in an easier to access manner. They don't look photoshopped to me. In Turn 63, he owns pretty much all of Europe.

Turn 25 (1712):

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Turn 63 (1731):

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**AussieGiant** · 04-23-2009, 14:20

They certainly don't look doctored to me.

The last shot is just incredible with Orange covering most of Europe. That I can sort of believe. It's the first two and the numbers in them that are just mad.

**Dayve** · 04-23-2009, 14:57

Well come on... look at what you've done. You've teched up 100% in everything and conquered the world, which in itself is not the aim of these games. Of course you're making 1 million a turn with the whole world conquered except for Constantinople.

Play properly, as realistically as is possible and resist the urge to take advantage of the stupid AI and this won't happen.

Here's something fun to do when an enemy refuses peace or attacks you; March through their lands with a massive army, which you'll need because you will take a lot of casualties doing this. March in to their capital region, cut off the roads, destroy their farms and workshops and garrison large armies in them, destroy happiness buildings like churches and inns, leave the school up and you will effectively cut off the enemies trade entirely and royally piss off the population. Keep this up for several turns and if they still refuse peace, capture some remote profitless dump on the edges of their land and then trade it back for peace, they always accept.

You will have dealt your enemy a blow and at the same time helped the AI not be completely dumb. You will have practically bankrupted them, halved the size of their army and then forced them to make peace.

I did it to Wurttemburg in 1704 in my latest French campaign. Unfortunately for me they had no other provinces i could take to force them to make peace so i destroyed the faction in 1710, but i gave it straight to one of my German allies, Bavaria.

**TinCow** · 04-23-2009, 13:44

Originally Posted by hathanhson

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85944891@N00/3467511979/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85944891@N00/3468274258/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85944891@N00/3468271854/

try the link, i'm not sure how the posting pic work, 5mb is over size limit ?

Ok, that's nuts.

Can you explain in more detail how you did this? Particularly how you got your economy that large so quickly. Do you save all your cash and not build any units or buildings during the start-up phase?