1.4 General Gameplay Observations

[Slaists]

City fortifications could always be dismantled you know.

Still witing for fixes to the Arc de Triomphe.

LOL, I must have missed that

Anyway, I'm in 1725 as Britain, playing on H campaign difficulty. Here are the campaign highlights:

1. France owns most of the former 13 Colonies, but I am beating them back
2. Portugal took Madrid. I guess, the fact that I was keeping the Spaniards busy from Gibraltar helped them to stay alive and succeed
3. Portugal still owns Goa, UP still owns Ceylon
4. France owns Tunisia, Savoy owns Algeria; I had nothing to do with those land-grabs
5. Morocco allied with Spain and DOW'ed me as soon as I took Gibraltar
6. UP took Paris. I guess, the fact that my fleet was keeping the French navy at bay in the Channel helped the Dutch (by cutting the French cash flow)
7. As soon I landed a force in Morocco and killed their fleets, Morocco sued for peace. I did not want that province so I agreed. We've been at peace (and trading) for some 30 turns now
8. After several naval defeats, Berbery pirates sued for peace. I agreed. We've been trading for about 15 years now
9. AI does kick raiding fleets out of their harbors now. AI's is still kind of slow to fix those damaged harbors though, but they eventually get to it
10. The Ottomans have not lost any of their original provinces and seem quite able to beat back any Polish, Austrian, Russian, Persian invaders
11. The chain-shot rules the seas now. Try it out...